<div>What's stopping these users from running a pruned node? Not every node needs to store a complete copy of the blockchain. </div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div>On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 11:18 AM David Vorick via bitcoin-dev <<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg">Perhaps you are fortunate to have a home computer that has more than a single 512GB SSD. Lots of consumer hardware has that little storage. Throw on top of it standard consumer usage, and you're often left with less than 200 GB of free space. Bitcoin consumes more than half of that, which feels very expensive, especially if it motivates you to buy another drive.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg">I have talked to several people who cite this as the primary reason that they are reluctant to join the full node club.</div></div>
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