
#383: Bitcoin: A Work In Progress with Sjors Provoost
TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast
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Is It Really Hard to Hold on to All of History?
With our current technology, I think it would be completely impossible on your Raspberry Pi to store a million years worth of blocks. It's hard to run a note on that Raspberry Pi right now. But my guess is that in a million years, whatever computers will be there will be slightly better than a Raspberry Pi. And then we're really happy we didn't increase the block size, but we still can't download the whole thing. Yeah. So we need a distributed library of Alexandria network. Well, that's why we needed distributed multiple secret, ideally. The longer the time period gets, the more difficult it will be to hold on to stuff. yeah.
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