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 View quoted note →