Just buy Monero. It will be real cash and a nightmare trying to legalize it.
At the same time, if we want a coin to be 100% mainstream success i think regularization is unavoidable.

So you believe the news?

This is misinformation and you are confusing people.

That number isn't true as it assumes we will immediately be processing 84k transactions per block which isn't going to happen.
20GB is the future limit and not the size of most blocks in the future. We are only 600-700tpb at the moment
https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions-per-block which means we are typically 15-25% full blocks for 1MB blocks.... do you really expect this to shoot up to 100% full 20MB blocks overnight?.... it will take years to start getting close to those levels.

Additionally, you are completed ignoring the work that is being completed on merkle tree pruning.

P.S... You may ask yourself why bother if we aren't even fully utilizing 1MB blocks now ... the answer is that we are having more and more examples where the 1 MB block limit is preventing more transactions from confirming and this is only going to get worse with each passing day.

Analogy to think about --- Why do gamers look for gfx cards that can support incredibly high fps rendering their games avg's of 120fps when their monitors typically won't reflect more than 60 fps and they would be hard pressed to tell much of a difference between 30 to 60 fps with their naked eye? Answer- because avg fps doesn't matter but minimum fps matters and if you buy a gfx card that benchmarks 1080p @ 50fps , it may occasionally dip to 10-18fps during certain moments of the game and create major moments of lag.

That graph shows a pretty healthy decrease in price over the last decade. Not exponential, but linear as Gavin's projections have charted.

a 4TB hard drive costs less than 135usd today guys.... have you checked prices? I currently have over 10TB in my desktop alone, space is so cheap.

Additionally, the average user with a 500GB hard-drive in a laptop isn't going to be running a node regardless as they don't even know how to call up their ISP and open port 8333 to begin with . There are only between 6-7k active nodes and most are miners at the moment.

I agree we should increase this amount for better decentralization , but we can do so by buying 5 dollar vps's which have much better bandwidth in the first place so, thus are preferred nodes to be distributing.

The price of storage is exponentially getting cheaper and the 1K GB would be the theoretical maximum growth.... or not going to happen for at least a few more years.  Additionally, there are attempts to work on merkle tree pruning and other solutions to reduce blockchain bloat.

The reason this is important now is because their are some blocks that already are completly full at the 1MB limit. we don't want this to become the norm and have transaction fees skyrocket and confirmation times becoming 2-3 times longer.

This would be awesome but let's face it, it wont happen.

Well its not that difficult to beat any of the exchanges we've seen so far, considering the biggest one was run by Magic the Gathering card traders.

Don't spend your time regretting and spend it finding the next best thing, a lot of people don't think the early investor ship has sailed for Bitcoin yet!