> very few people other than dedicated miners download a full blockchain I'm gonna have to ask for evidence on this one, I strongly believe most full nodes are

> very few people other than dedicated miners download a full blockchain I'm gonna have to ask for evidence on this one, I strongly believe most full nodes are not mining pools. http://bitdash.io/ http://bitdash.io/ says there are ~10,000 running full nodes, yet there are only ~100 mining pools that have produced a block in recent history: https://miningpoolstats.stream/bitcoin https://miningpoolstats.stream/bitcoin > 1TB is already too large to keep on your phone or laptop On your phone, sure. But my desktop already has a few TB of storage. But not 8. And Bitcoin Cash supporters usually seem to indicate that they'd increase it beyond 8 if the 8mb blocks filled up.