All your sad posts are making me sad now.
I suppose then, the best thing to do is find out how the free market copes with an exponentially increasing blockchain size. It had to happen eventually anyway...
Bitcoin was actually doing fairly well and the chain size was only increasing at a moderate rate (largely DeepBit, which still refuses to use multisend, which would cut down on their volume by a ton) up until SatoshiDice. Realistically, if satoshidice employed more sane methods of operation (multisend would be very easy and would have a pretty large impact on pure transaction volume, but really they should allow users to carry balance and withdraw when they want, the way pretty much every other bitcoin site does it) they would have a relatively tiny impact on the chain compared to what they have now. The only reason the chain grows the way it does is because people like satoshi dice (and pretty much only satoshidice) refuse to put in an extra 10 minutes of coding time.I suppose then, the best thing to do is find out how the free market copes with an exponentially increasing blockchain size. It had to happen eventually anyway...
I suspect we'll see many more users move to a light client in the coming months. I already removed the full satoshi client from all of my computers except one, simply because it really does take a toll on the machine it is on.
Running light nodes is the way the network is going anyway, and thats fine, but forcing everyone to do so purely because people are lazy and stupid is really poor.
