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You can get 4GB of RAM for less than $100.[0] That doesn't seem so expensive to me. [0] https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order

• Laforet 9y ago
  It is a lot for embedded and mobile devices, even the ability to address 4GB memory adds to the cost of processor. Right now full history nodes on phones are a pipe dream, and people who run full nodes on raspberry pis are actually degrading the performance of the network by adding a tonne of slow nodes with 1GB memory or less. In the long run the UTXO set will always grow because of lost keys and dust amounts worth less than the fees to move them, yet it is politically unacceptable nor practical to drop any of these from the consensus, so the problem will only get worse. It is, of course, not a problem if you think SPV wallets are the way forward, but this view has been stigmatised as "centralisation" so it also leads to no real solutions.