The virtual currency required to
run a full node does and shall remain in your sole and exclusive possession.
Not exact matches
With this add - on, ethereum's computational limit doesn't need to increase too much, and the hope is that it will still be reasonable for regular ethereum enthusiasts to
run a
full node.
Currently, the most direct way to allow Ethereum to process more transactions is simply to make blocks larger to allow for more transactions per block, but this would mean that each
node would have to
do that much more work in the same amount of time and may eventually preclude consumer grade hardware from
running full nodes.
With this add - on, ethereum's computational limit doesn't need to increase too much, and the hope is that it will still be reasonable for regular ethereum enthusiasts to
run a
full node.
And users who don't want to use Segregated Witness because of the increased cost of
running a
full node, don't have to.
If Bitcoin
does fail to scale then the end result will be a smaller number of
full nodes but lots of people using the system — this is still better than Bitcoin being deliberately crippled so it never gets popular because even if the number of
full nodes collapses down to less than 1000, unknown future advances in technology might make it cheap enough for everyone to
run a
full node again.»