I see this as a laudable ideal.
But at best, we can only hope a certain percentage of people will actually do this.
There is an enormous portion of people who couldn't, even if they wanted to. So how do these people participate in bitcoin?
There have to be compromises. There have to be states that are *good enough*.
Satoshi himself predicted this in a post on the Bitcoin Talk Forum around 2010. He predicted that there would come a time where not every person could or would have to run a full node. And that that would fall to large data centers (not quite the buzzword back then).
The implication there is there would/should always be enough people who could run full nodes and mine to keep the network distributed enough not to break the whole point of it.
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2026-10-10 14:27:06 UTC
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