"8MB block means the block chain grows by 1,207,959,552 (~1GB) per day, or ~365GB per year. This means that now not everyone has the internet connection or the

"8MB block means the block chain grows by 1,207,959,552 (~1GB) per day, or ~365GB per year. This means that now not everyone has the internet connection or the disk space to keep a copy of the block chain" No. You provide no stats, no costs, to justify why 8MB is prohibitive while 1MB is fine. In reality 8MB blocks remain easily affordable. The limit where it starts being quite costly for an individual to run a full node is around 100MB: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825934 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14825934 And by the time we get to 100MB, computing, networking, storage technology will have improved and let us go even further.