[clarkmoody]

> Yesterday I wanted to install bitcoin core... the blockchain is 153 GB and will eat CPU for days to validate everything. It's crazy.

It's not crazy when you realize that you've verified that you own your coins and that the money supply is correct without having to trust anyone. And all you had to do was commit some disk space and CPU cycles.

> Unthinkable now. We need something else.

As soon as that "something else" becomes as popular as Bitcoin, it will suffer the same issues.