📅 Original date posted:2014-04-07 📝 Original message:I would point to bandwidth as the most important issue to the casual user who runs a node at home. Few casual users have the know-how to set up QoS rules and thus become quite annoyed when their Internet connection is discernibly slowed. - Jameson On 04/07/2014 11:53 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Justus Ranvier <justusranvier at 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. > p.sf.net/sfu/13600_Cloudbees_APR > _______________________________________________ > Bitcoin-development mailing list > Bitcoin-development at lists.sourceforge.net > lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bitcoin-development >