> So let’s recap. If Bitcoin took over the world today, a single Bitcoin node operator in the United States:
> - would have to purchase a machine capable of providing 3TB of memory, that would probably cost well above $10,000
> - would need $2,413 per year in order to store the blockchain on the machine
> - would have to route blocks through a CDN operator that would cost over $600 per month. Gone are the days of Google Fiber and AT&T!
> - would face block validation times of up to one month per block. So our node might not be doing much of anything at all.