MachuPikacchu on Nostr: The centralization doesn’t just come from having to purchase more storage space. ...
The centralization doesn’t just come from having to purchase more storage space. That’s part of it, sure, but there’s much more to it.
For one thing if the blocks were significantly bigger then it would take much longer to sync then chain and we’d have fewer people willing to wait. Adversarial actors at the ISP level would also be more likely to detect bitcoin traffic and throttle or drop the packets entirely. It also takes more computational resources to verify larger the larger blocks so CPU could become a bottleneck.
For one thing if the blocks were significantly bigger then it would take much longer to sync then chain and we’d have fewer people willing to wait. Adversarial actors at the ISP level would also be more likely to detect bitcoin traffic and throttle or drop the packets entirely. It also takes more computational resources to verify larger the larger blocks so CPU could become a bottleneck.