All this is doing is pushing the "be your own bank" feature away for average users. If you want Bitpay or Microsoft to be your new bank, be my guest lol. You go first.
If you want a real full node, run the real bitcoin software
Can't get it running on your machine? Hogs the internet or your hard disk too much?
Bitcoin is about more than investing in the future of money, it's about having the skills and the resources to do it in the first place. So....
- Buy that multicore new PC
- Buy that bigger, faster hard disk for it
- Buy that Mbit/s rated broadband/cell phone
- Brush up those computing skills (via Professor Search Engine )
That's what you need. Then you've got your own bank. And it really does have all the features that banks have to use. (except for all the queuing and the garbage BS from over-coiffured airheads, you can lay all that on for yourself)