Switched this node to Knots and re-downloaded the whole chain
to take a stance against non-monetary data. The sync just
finished…876 GB on a 1 TB drive. Synced on day one, 46 GB to spare. Two years of
blocks heavy with inscriptions and embedded files that have
nothing to do with money, and an archival node carries every
byte. The cost of storing arbitrary data doesn't land on the people creating the load. It lands on node operators: more disk, more memory, more barrier
to entry. And this network's security rests on ordinary people.
being able to run their own node.
I know which side of that I'm on.
#Bitcoin #Knots #BIP110 #OpenBSD
Including non-monetary data in Bitcoin’s blockchain is a serious mistake, and Bitcoin Core enabling it only makes it worse. Using the world’s most secure and most expensive monetary ledger to store JPEGs or memecoin code wastes a genuinely scarce resource. This becomes obvious the moment you run a node under real memory or storage constraints. Left unchecked, non-financial data inflates blocks, adds CPU overhead, and bloats the chain that every node has to carry.
I originally compiled it using Bitcoin Core version on OpenBSD, but now switched to Knots and re-downloading full chain to take a philosophical stance.
#openBSD #Knots #BitcoinNode
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