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fegeline 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm aware of the scaling problem, and both methods has it's pros and cons, that's the problem. Scaling must be done in a decentralized way, but currently all available scaling methods seems to lead to centralization in one way or another.

BCH and BSV would require bigger local disks to work, we might get there in a few years seeing how SSDs are getting bigger and cheaper every year, but we're not there yet. BCH processing the same amount of transactions as VISA would make the chain at least 1GB bigger every 10min, while you get fast and cheap transactions, very few people could possibly afford all the storage required, hence there would be too few nodes.

BTC has it's major issues too, I checked the transaction price a few days ago, $100 for one transaction, that's not sustainable either. While Lightning does work as a decentralized second layer solution too few people are aware of it, and fewer knows how to actually use it. Just like BCH and BSV this problem will likely be solved in a few years too.

There's really not much to do other than hodl and trade alts, while waiting.

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cryogen 1 point ago +1 / -0

There are no reasonable cons to scaling up exactly as Satoshi and the entire community outlined and foresaw.

There is no reason for every single person to have the entirety of the history of the chain on their HDD.