Ultimately our target is to have Economic nodes (Full Nodes by a Bitcoin standard) running on commodity hardware with 4GB of RAM and a standard SSD.
Now that's fuckin' exciting. I get that there's been a lot of SMT hype and people are kind of obsessed with them, but if you can pull off the above that's a sea change in Steem usability for devs.
Indeed! I think that even if we had to split the chain across multiple servers, allowing this would be a great development. A 64GB server is still pretty premium. A 16GB server would be perfectly acceptable. To get all the way down to 4GB? That means that people can run it on hardware taking on dust balls in the closet. Such would mean that quite a few more people can run servers.
Please, could you stop the cumming? I liked the critical parts of your being more.
If you read Minnesotan you'll notice there's a pretty big slam on SMT obsession in there.
But part of being critical is celebrating when something is a really good idea, and nodes that can run on commodity hardware are a really good idea.