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If you have to be a server farm to prune past 1 week, Bitcoin will no longer be decentralized and censorship resistant, losing its main point in the first place
by 127 6y ago
If you have to be a server farm to prune past 1 week, Bitcoin will no longer be decentralized and censorship resistant, losing its main point in the first place.
- CryptoPunk 6y agoA single modern consumer-grade PC can validate 100X larger blocks in real time. The average web page these days is over 1 MB. The idea that you need to limit every once-in-every-10-minute block to 1 or 1.6 MB is not, from everything I can see, close to approaching a sound balancing of competing priorities.
- mtrycz2 6y agoMy RPi4 can handle 256MB blocks on BCH's scalenet, just fine. There never was a scaling issue.
- CryptoPunk 6y agoExactly. Even 100X larger blocks, meaning 100 MB blocks, would allow for very high levels of decentralization.