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by SwellJoe 4523 days ago
I suspect that every user running a full node is going to become a bigger problem as time goes by. Newer Bitcoin clients remove the requirement by communicating with a full node somewhere in the cloud and only storing the most recent transactions (a full node hosts the entire history of the currency; every transaction ever made).

Dogecoin has tremendous transaction volume, second only to Bitcoin some days, because of it's tipping culture. So, it's probably more urgent that solutions to the full-node problem get solved for more popular altcoins like Doge than for the less used ones.