Look, this isn’t some FUD to scare people. It’s a massive, looming wall we’re about to hit.
The blockchain size is creeping up on 1 TB, and the UTXO set could easily blow past the 16 GB RAM limit. If this data just keeps bloating and hits 100 GB, running a full node will become impossible for regular people. Everything will get pushed to cloud servers and enterprise-grade hardware, and just like that, Bitcoin’s decentralization is dead.
Also, we need to stop looking at $100K as the endgame for Bitcoin. If that's the ceiling, it dies. Bitcoin is binary: it either goes to zero, or it hits $10 million. And under that kind of terminal thesis, there’s only one choice—Bitcoin has to stay absolutely pure. It must be a pure, cross-border clearing layer for institutional-scale capital.
Leave the jpeg storage and token minting to Layer 2s or other chains. They’ll always be better at that stuff anyway. But the ultimate clearing layer? That belongs to Bitcoin, and Bitcoin alone.
Nonsensical FUD. Running a node will only get cheaper moving forward and you can still run a kick ass node on a cheap 6 year old MacBook Air. If I wanted to attack Bitcoin, I’d make up retarded FUD like this to try and scare people into changing its consensus rules.