There are already 2TB SSDs available for less than 80€ and prices are expected to go even lower.

I agree with Artic Mine and believe storage is not going to be a problem for Monero and that the only real bottleneck is upload speed.

What do you think?

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    Stop assuming that comsumer technology will keep growing at the rate is has the last 10 years.

    It wont.

    We have like 70 years of data. People literally call the assumption of IT-stuff getting cheaper “laws”.

    historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage.png

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      @monerobull @monero
      There are three kinds of lies.
      Lies, damn lies, and statistics.
      What will your ego chart mean when our time of enjoying the global reserve currency comes to an end, and China takes back taiwan? Or when the BRICS alliance becomes the dominant economic force in the world, and the dollar experiences hyperinflation as all the stored dollars in South America and Africa come rushing back Stateside?
      Youre a Roman standing on Hadrians Wall thinking the Empire will last forever.
      The post WW1 growth/debt economy is headed toward a cliff along with your charts.

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        Alright, if your expected scenario is that bleak, sure, we should try our best to keep the chain as storage efficient as possible but even if Taiwan and China stop supplying SSDs there are still quite a few manufacturers outside of those two countries and your bigger concern should be regarding CPU / other components.

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          @monerobull @monero
          Fair enough.
          My concern is the tendency to build freedom preserving technology in a way that presumes the economic bubble of the last 70 years will continue. Especially considering the geo-political state of the world, and the patterns of history.
          And I am not sure that it will be a sudden and rapid collapse. In fact I doubt it.
          But things are changing, and the economy we have enjoyed due to a post WW2 bubble, is ending. And we dont produce enough of our own stuff. We need to be wise. If i see a production chain from material supply, to end product, that has resilience to shifting geopolitics, Ill ease up on resource efficiency.

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        i love it so much when americans think the usa is the only country and the usd is the only currency in the world