I really don't understand why people are so much interesting in Satoshi, who is he, if he is still alive etc.?
Do you think that anything will change in your life if you find answer to this question?
I don't think so.
In my opinion, more important is to understand blockchain technology, bitcoin, crypto world and how it can change your life.
Satoshi shared his vision with us but now is our turn to develop it and to convince others to accept it.
All this idea developed a lot in the last 10 years and now this story is about us, not Satoshi any more.
Yes, thats why we need to start to delete old blocks or our wonderfull blockchain will be a snowball in future and everybody from banks would say:
"I told you, bitcoin was a bubble!"
You cannot have one unlimited data blockchain, everything in the life needs to be sustainable if bitcoin keeps going like this will have big problems again soon, look the number of day transactions, is starting to become as in the 2017, ok now we can do more some thousands of moves, maybe its some more mounths to get that point and what we will do, pay unbleavable fees again and wait days, weeks or months for a transactions like i did myself and can prove it, 3 months for a transaction be confirmed ?!
How can we have descentralization with a blockchain with terabytes and terabytes? Someday only google and Microsoft can run a full node!
We need to cut the problem by the root as soon as possible, old blocks need to be deleted to keep a full node with reasonable data size:
7. Reclaiming Disk Space
Once the latest transaction in a coin is buried under enough blocks, the spent transactions before
it can be discarded to save disk space. To facilitate this without breaking the block's hash,
transactions are hashed in a Merkle Tree [7][2][5], with only the root included in the block's hash.
Old blocks can then be compacted by stubbing off branches of the tree. The interior hashes do
not need to be stored.
A block header with no transactions would be about 80 bytes. If we suppose blocks are
generated every 10 minutes, 80 bytes * 6 * 24 * 365 = 4.2MB per year. With computer systems
typically selling with 2GB of RAM as of 2008, and Moore's Law predicting current growth of
1.2GB per year, storage should not be a problem even if the block headers must be kept in
memory.
But this is not enought, we should go far, delete old blocks forcing people to move bitcoins from time to time that way we could recover lost money like that lost millions .
The target is to make a system that can run thousands of years or you pretend to make bitcoin to last only 100 years or 200 or 1000 ?
What is the target?
Nobody wants to do hardforks, that way bitcoin have his years counting down, hard-forks need to be done sooner or later.