<div>What&#39;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 &lt;<a href="mailto:bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org">bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org</a>&gt; 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&#39;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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