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Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by dane-pgp on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:18PM (#25863661)
> After 10 years you'll need to spend hundreds on hard drives just to get started.

Do you think that 10 years from now, a 15 TB hard drive will cost at least $200?

Re:Bitcoincore.org removes Satoshi's whitepaper from website... by gruez on Thursday January 21, 2021 @03:42PM (#25863973)
Maybe? Hard drive growth speeds have slowed down in the past decade or so. While there's no doubt that storage capacity growth will outpace transaction volume growth, and that eventually it would be feasible for a typical home user to run their full node (at visa's TPS). It remains to be seen whether that's 10 years away or 50+ years away.