That's true. Last time i tried that with Bitcoin Signet, i got compression ratio 0.63 (505MB 798MB). For comparison, compression you choose have ratio about 0.81 (397GB ~486GB).

Does faster drive (something like PCI-e 4.0 NVMe or regular even regular SATA SSD) mean anything in this case

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I think that when the technology of data storage has evolved by changing scale, i.e. for example when the price of 10TB is at the current price of 1TB, it may be possible to increase the size of the blocks as this will not harm decentralisation, however we may be close to the theoretical limit in data storage

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We have not shown any signs of being close to the theoretical limit but we are slowing down. Franky is right that we have evolved very quickly from things that we thought would be with us for a long time. CDs were very popular and people thought that it would be a method of storage for many years but they are now redundant so redundant that people do not have dvd players and do not have a cd tray in their computers.

I think the motivation for consumer storage might be the theoretical limit instead of the actual limit. hard drives wil continue to expand by a lot but they will be aimed at companies that need a lot of storage and cloud storage provides. The average consumer does not use more then 4TB atm and with other technologies slowing down and hitting their limit like games where the hardware is stronger then the things it relies on I think that could be what happens in the next 5-10 years. Consumer level hard drives might continue to be cheap but probably will not be made in smaller sizes corporate ones will probably continue to expand at a fast rate but will be more expensive to purchase.

for me is just a sense of pride, I don't know next. maybe when having the time I want to learn how to make a Lighting network node, and earning satoshi from that, or create a wallet and be a developer like you said.

and there is no harm if we have unused internet at home and pc because is not disturb also when running my pc with another program.

actually, I step to download a bit by bit, certainly not so felt long if in the future I make the blockchain program or etc.

theoretical limit in data storage (in general) or just theoretical limit of current technology used on HDD? Even if you're talking specifically about HDD, theoretically we can see at least 80TB capacity[1].


I'll have to remind privacy concern is also valid reason to run full node. For example, you don't want random electrum server know list of address belong to same person.

[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/next-gen-hamr-platters-promise-80tb-hard-drives

the core wallet is complicated, can not be used for transactions before the blockchain is completed

luckily my 2012 stash pops up on GUI display in the first ~100gb*
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* (im hoarding thus dont want to spend these)

luckily my 2012 stash pops up on GUI display in the first ~100gb*
luckily my 2014 stash pops up on GUI display in the first ~150gb*
luckily my 201x stash's pop up on GUI display in the first ~300gb*
unluckily my 2022 play amount pops up after 400gb

but my main goal.. i want to ensure bitcoin functions as a financial payment network to protect my value..  and is not turned into a meme-stock storage network

from a technical side of data storage growth of 210gb a year is not disastrous growth. but how that data is used, is a disaster if majority of it is just memes. memes is very inefficient use of the available data growth and it limits/decreases of the financial utility of bitcoin