<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><author_name>npub15fc36esk6dy2x4ptk2ner209rl9u0d736gr99edtu9knu9uny80s4g5grz</author_name><author_url>https://nostr.ae/npub15fc36esk6dy2x4ptk2ner209rl9u0d736gr99edtu9knu9uny80s4g5grz</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://nostr.ae</provider_url><html>📅 Original date posted:2017-03-29&#xA;📝 Original message:I have heard such theory before, it&#39;s a complete mistake to think that&#xA;others would run full nodes to protect their business and then yours,&#xA;unless it is proven that they are decentralized and independent&#xA;&#xA;Running a full node is trivial and not expensive for people who know how&#xA;to do it, even with much bigger blocks, assuming that the full nodes are&#xA;still decentralized and that they don&#39;t have to fight against big nodes&#xA;who would attract the traffic first&#xA;&#xA;I have posted many times here a small proposal, that exactly describes&#xA;what is going on now, yes miners are nodes too... it&#39;s disturbing to see&#xA;that despite of Tera bytes of BIPs, papers, etc the current situation is&#xA;happening and that all the supposed decentralized system is biased by&#xA;centralization&#xA;&#xA;Do we know what majority controls the 6000 full nodes?&#xA;&#xA;&#xA;Le 29/03/2017 à 22:32, Jared Lee Richardson via bitcoin-dev a écrit :&#xA;&gt; &gt; Perhaps you are fortunate to have a home computer that has more than&#xA;&gt; a single 512GB SSD. Lots of consumer hardware has that little storage.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; That&#39;s very poor logic, sorry.  Restricted-space SSD&#39;s are not a&#xA;&gt; cost-effective hardware option for running a node.  Keeping blocksizes&#xA;&gt; small has significant other costs for everyone.  Comparing the cost of&#xA;&gt; running a node under arbitrary conditons A, B, or C when there are far&#xA;&gt; more efficient options than any of those is a very bad way to think&#xA;&gt; about the costs of running a node.  You basically have to ignore the&#xA;&gt; significant consequences of keeping blocks small.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; If node operational costs rose to the point where an entire wide swath&#xA;&gt; of users that we do actually need for security purposes could not&#xA;&gt; justify running a node, that&#39;s something important for consideration. &#xA;&gt; For me, that translates to modern hardware that&#39;s relatively well&#xA;&gt; aligned with the needs of running a node - perhaps budget hardware,&#xA;&gt; but still modern - and above-average bandwidth caps.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; You&#39;re free to disagree, but your example only makes sense to me if&#xA;&gt; blocksize caps didn&#39;t have serious consequences.  Even if those&#xA;&gt; consequences are just the threat of a contentious fork by people who&#xA;&gt; are mislead about the real consequences, that threat is still a&#xA;&gt; consequence itself.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:18 AM, David Vorick via bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt; &lt;bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; &lt;mailto:bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt;&gt; wrote:&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;     Perhaps you are fortunate to have a home computer that has more&#xA;&gt;     than a single 512GB SSD. Lots of consumer hardware has that little&#xA;&gt;     storage. Throw on top of it standard consumer usage, and you&#39;re&#xA;&gt;     often left with less than 200 GB of free space. Bitcoin consumes&#xA;&gt;     more than half of that, which feels very expensive, especially if&#xA;&gt;     it motivates you to buy another drive.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;     I have talked to several people who cite this as the primary&#xA;&gt;     reason that they are reluctant to join the full node club.&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;     _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt;     bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt;     bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt;     &lt;mailto:bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&gt;&#xA;&gt;     https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&gt;     &lt;https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt;&#xA;&gt; _______________________________________________&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev mailing list&#xA;&gt; bitcoin-dev at lists.linuxfoundation.org&#xA;&gt; https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev&#xA;&#xA;-- &#xA;Zcash wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/zcash-wallets&#xA;Bitcoin wallets made simple: https://github.com/Ayms/bitcoin-wallets&#xA;Get the torrent dynamic blocklist: http://peersm.com/getblocklist&#xA;Check the 10 M passwords list: http://peersm.com/findmyass&#xA;Anti-spies and private torrents, dynamic blocklist: http://torrent-live.org&#xA;Peersm : http://www.peersm.com&#xA;torrent-live: https://github.com/Ayms/torrent-live&#xA;node-Tor : https://www.github.com/Ayms/node-Tor&#xA;GitHub : https://www.github.com/Ayms&#xA;&#xA;-------------- next part --------------&#xA;An HTML attachment was scrubbed...&#xA;URL: &lt;http://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/attachments/20170330/c54aa76d/attachment-0001.html&gt;</html></oembed>