Relevant costs are the ones which the Bitcoin protocol can control: bandwidth, disk space and CPU. This is why its important to defend the block weight limit, because if it was increased a lot then its likely that only datacenters could run validating nodes, as you describe.
Oh god, just put a fork in it!
Seriously, sometimes I can't understand the way some bitcoiners think.
One moment is bragging how one Bitcoin would allow you to rule from your castle the fiat plebs, then it's screaming about how they can't afford a fucking 2tb drive.
Right now, as we speak, there are barely as many nodes as there are online players for ARK, a stupid game full of bugs, unoptimized, for which you need at least 16gb of RAM and at least a 3060 or anything with upwards of 8 gb of VRAM and at least a 2 TB SSD, because the way the update works from the stupid team that created this game you basically re-download every single damn file every time.
So if the Bitcoin community can't afford the same hardware as some guys who like to ride dinos to battles in some game, how in the name of god are we going to crush the banks, re-write the economic system and all the other bla bla bla...
Wait, revolution cancelled; a 2 TB SSD that would be enough for 4 years of blocks is $200....the banks won!!!!
Join the lukechaincoin, they made their blocks 30% the size, or even better, let's have blocks only 1 kb in size, so even after 100 years you can run your one tx per block chain on a 166 mmx with a 2.3 gb hdd.
Stompix, are you a gamer?
I felt good seeing someone on here talks about ARK, the game sucks big time lol, I would rather spend few hours on Ark Riders
I don't understand why people are complaining, it's not as if Bitcoin Node requires gen 5 NVME SSD only, Nodes can be run on normal SSD drives that we are used to, they are even cheaper than NVMe.
A gen 3 NVMe would do just fine, even those laptops small SSDs.
Buying them is a one time thing, you aren't buying again in 2027, I just got me 4TB not too long and I don't care.
If you don't have SSD you can still use HDD too.
Still have a WD red plus from 3 years ago, 2TB still kicking ass.
