I’m afraid this is a highly simplistic view of the costs of running a full node.
My node consumes fantastic amounts of data traffic, which is a real cost. In the 30 days ending Apri 6, my node: * Received 36.8 gb of data * Sent 456.5 gb data At my geographic service location (Singapore), this cost about $90 last month for bandwidth alone. It would be slightly cheaper if I was hosted in the US of course. But anyone can understand that moving a half-terrabyte of data around in a month will not be cheap. On Apr 7, 2014, at 8:53 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Justus Ranvier <justusranv...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 1. The resource requirements of a full node are moving beyond the >> capabilities of casual users. This isn't inherently a problem - after >> all most people don't grow their own food, tailor their own clothes, or >> keep blacksmith tools handy in to forge their own horseshoes either. > > Right now running a full node consumes about $1 in disk space > non-reoccurring and costs a couple cents in power per month. > > This isn't to say things are all ducky. But if you're going to say the > resource requirements are beyond the capabilities of casual users I'm > afraid I'm going to have to say: citation needed. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Put Bad Developers to Shame > Dominate Development with Jenkins Continuous Integration > Continuously Automate Build, Test & Deployment > Start a new project now. Try Jenkins in the cloud. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_APR > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development
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