rich1.0npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwethttps://nostr.ae/npub1f2nvlx49er5c7sqa43src6ssyp6snd4qwvtkwm5avc2l84cs84esecrwetnjumphttps://nostr.ae📅 Original date posted:2014-04-09 📝 Original message:On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Justus Ranvier <justusranvier at gmail.com> wrote: > Anyone reading the archives of the list will see about triple the > number of people independently confirming the resource usage problem > than they will see denying it, so I'm not particularly worried. The list has open membership, there is no particular qualification or background required to post here. Optimal use of an information source requires critical reading and understanding the limitations of the medium. Counting comments is usually not a great way to assess technical considerations on an open public forum. Doubly so because those comments were not actually talking about the same thing I am talking about. Existing implementations are inefficient in many known ways (and, no doubt, some unknown ones). This list is about developing protocol and implementations including improving their efficiency. When talking about incentives the costs you need to consider are the costs of the best realistic option. As far as I know there is no doubt from anyone technically experienced that under the current network rules full nodes can be operated with vastly less resources than current implementations use, it's just a question of the relatively modest implementation improvements. When you argue that Bitcoin doesn't have the right incentives (and thus something??) I retort that the actual resource _requirements_ are for the protocol very low. I gave specific example numbers to enable correction or clarification if I've said something wrong or controversial. Pointing out that existing implementations are not that currently as efficient as the underlying requirements and that some large number of users do not like the efficiency of existing implementations doesn't tell me anything I disagree with or didn't already know. Whats being discussed around here contributes to prioritizing improvements over the existing implementations. I hope this clarifies something.