“Pruning is fine… nodes are mainly for you, not for the network.”
This mindset quietly pushes Bitcoin toward centralization: let big companies and large operators run the real full archival nodes while everyone else prunes or relies on them.
The hard reality in 2026 is that a regular working person already struggles to run a proper full archival node (Knots indexes ~1.18 TB on my setup). Hardware, electricity, and bandwidth aren’t trivial.
Not everyone has the same economic reality. That doesn’t mean the solution is “just depend on corporations” or accept a bloated chain.
BIP-110 exists precisely to keep verification accessible for normal people on modest hardware — not turn it into another luxury for those who can afford big iron.
Sovereignty shouldn’t be gated by wealth.
Run Knots. Support BIP-110.
Pruning is fine, it doesn't weaken the network, you can still buy cheap nodes if you want to validate your own transactions - nodes are mainly for you, not for the network.