1 french people consume 7 379 kWh in 1 year= average household uses 840watt an hour
seems about right when you think about a fridge/freezer on 24/7 and tv, computer, houselights, electric oven, dish/clothes washer on for certain amount of time which averages to that total.

but..
a node is just a computer ~450watt so for every 2 nodes is ~ 1 household(yes im rounding)..  so the real maths would be
5200 nodes @ 450watt = 2785 french households (nodes: 2340000watts / 840= 2785 households)

now as for the mining.
an asic is powered at ~1300watt = so for every asic is under 2 french people(yes i rounded)..so the real maths would be
125k asics @ 1.3kwatt = 193452 french households (asics: 162500000watts / 840= 193452 households)

so your saying financial systems are not restricted?
ever tried to get more the £$500 out of an ATM
ever tried to carry more than £$10,000 in cash onto a plane

we should stop thinking or caring about government rules or possible future rules. but strengthen the network to not get impacted by any rules present or future.

we need to stop saying:
"i hope governments dont change laws"
"i hope hackers dont delete 6000 nodes data in one swoop"

and instead say
"hackers come try breaking bitcoin, you can waste your time it wont break"
"governments come try to take it offline, you can waste your time but new nodes will be up in 20 seconds"

we should not care about why, where, who.
we should not be apathetic due to questions of why, where, who.

instead we should continue to increase the networks diversity and distribution so that questions such as:
why doesn't matter
when doesn't matter
who doesn't matter
where doesn't matter

most hardware is defunct/out of date in 4-5 years so i think the 1TB is enough..
give them a few years and their next version will probably have more. but as i said 1TB is atleast 5 years, but more realistically 7-10years. which is adequate

the issue is you are not taking analogies at face value of a public road. you try to push beyond face value by introducing variables and outside extra's.
a rogue radio station is the same as an estate created on open land on an island by those living on it without needing mainland government oversight.
<6000 residents say here are the basic design plans for a road
this is done by one group of residents accepting any width road below 16 lanes
this is done by one group of residents accepting any width road below 4 lanes
this is done by one group of residents accepting any width road below 2 lanes
this is done by one group of residents accepting any width road below 1 lanes
and some residents(pools) build it by realising that only 1 lane roads are acceptable to all residents.

if the road doesnt meet the specifications of all the residents, the residents destroy the road and ask another road that fits the plans to be built.
there is no central government making decisions for the residents. the residents themselves set their own rules and what results as acceptable is a marginal solution that all residents accept. and they themselves destroy what is not suitable

bitcoin has no central government. so a road is just a public road. build by the consensus and compromise of residents.
bt if you dont like the car analogy..
screw it. lets call it the sea. and they keys allow people to use a boat.
screw it. lets call it the air. and they keys allow people to use a plane.
screw it. lets call it space. and they keys allow people to use a spaceship.
either way possession of a key is different to ownership of a key.. or of vehicle or of transportation platform.

possession seems to be the closest term no matter what analogy is used

as for pirate radio.
this analogy is flawed. because the signal is being broadcast by one radio DJ who is choosing what music shall be transmitted. thus he governs it without his listeners having a say.
secondly possession and ownership are different things.

https://stashnode.com/faqs.html

1tb hard drive = ~ 5 years minimum lifespan at the segwit 4mb max blockweight. obviously it takes time to get to that max bloat amount. so id say 7-10 years utility as a fair expectation..

although its a pre-built system but is 99% open source.
id suggest importing your own wallet seeds/privkeys just to be sure the key generator within the device is not compromised(derived from a master key they own), if your just going to run it as-is.
but still worth checking the source code in the device itself incase the device got intercepted in shipment just to be 100% sure.
and to check the device doesnt transmit keys.
hopefully the guys will release file hashes as a quick way to achieve this to validate the executables have not been modified

keys=privkeys
car=coin
road=blockchain

no one owns the road.
everyone can use the road

the car is also on the road not no one owns the car. any family member with the keys or a thief with the right tools can use the car morally or immorally and take possession of it.

but if i am the only person with the keys then i am the only one that morally can use the car. which makes it in my possession (morally) while im the only key holder and the car is on a street i can get to.

again we are only talking about possession. not ownership

car keys.
if you posess the car keys its deemed you can use the car.
but you dont physically have the car in your pocket.. it is on the road(blockchain).
it is too big to be in your pocket. it will always be on the road.

and a repossession company(virus/hacker) can get a court order(trojan) to move the car off the road by either changing the locks(moving to their key). or they send the car to a destruction yard so no one uses it(address with no key).

if an earthquake/tsunami swallowed up all the roads and cars. then you do not posess the car anymore even if you have the key

but as long as the car is accessible to the road and you have the car key, you possess the car
ownership is a separate thing and more complex and thus i think ownership does not fit bitcoins terminology

but yes, even i said possession is not a perfect term. but a closer term than "ownership".
ownership and possession are not the same thing.
as ownership deems you have rights which we both agree is very questionable. possession just deems your simply able to use.
but again still not perfect term, just closer approximation

the IMF can only deal with government money. EG a painting or jewellery is a tradable asset. the IMF wont get involved with that
the UN can only deal with governments.

though governments can make laws to prohibit (make illegal to use) something. the law is just paper. paper cannot attack electric. just like paper couldnt directly attack liquid (moonshine/alcohol of the last century)
it requires court orders and law enforcement (HUMANS) to investigate and deliver these bits of paper to ISP's to shut off the internet of <6000 nodes/raid pubs/bars and drinking clubs.

but bitcoin nodes are not (should not) be confined to one country. thus if america prohibits bitcoin and gets a court order to disconnect the internet of 1500 peoples landlines. there are still 3700 nodes connected to the internet in other countries.

right now there are 91 countries that have nodes running. so all 91 countries will need to pass a law to prohibit bitcoin to then use that to all simultaneously get the ISP's of all nodes to disconnect the internet of all <6000 nodes.
though in minutes someone can knock on a neighbours door and borrow their landline internet or a open wifi to get their node online, while they sort out their own landline.

bitcoin is a little weak in this area because it does not cover all 200 countries and the majority are not using satalite internet to avoid a small possibility of international law changes and/or ISP take down requests.

but even in a worse case. people will just change their home address to get access to a new landline access to the internet. and borrow/rent friends internet for a month, while its getting sorted. thus all they can do is disrupt bitcoin temporarily, thus its a fools errand to take down someones internet.

mining pools already have several servers to mitigate the risk of not relying on one ISP access to the internet. so overall i cannot see governments being able to permanently stop the bitcoin network. but we should atleast not be apathetic and not trust/hope governments wont change laws or isps wont follow court orders or pretend that 91 countries is enough diversity/distribution.

we should always be looking to expand diversity/distribution to mitigate risks.

this section of the forum is more for bitcoin which is a POW. not a POS.

so its better to know which coin you are talking about and then you can go find the main promoter or dev of that coin and ask them direct. some coins even have an IRC or slack portal to talk directly with those involved.

many POS coins have different formulae.

some POS coins base the code on whoever made a transaction within the block to become part of the block securing mechanism and their involvement is rewarded.
some POS coins base the code on randomly selecting nodes that are available on the network.

there are many more. so its hard to give you a proper answer here.

governments care about money. they pass on the duties of child porn investigations to local law enforcement.
after all you never see a senator or a MP raiding perves houses.

the government are restricted from directly getting a ISP to ban individuals from using the internet. hense why i said it would have to be done via interpol.
also interpol would need 'good cause' to get a court order to do such things.

with things like perves. stopping their internet is just an alarm bell for the perves to destroy evidence. and thats why they prefer to do 'morning raids' to surprise the perverts and avoid evidence being destroyed. rather than shut down their internet.

though cutting off the internet is both physically and technically possible. the procedures involved in doing so are not straight forward. a government would need to create a law to allow law enforcement to apply to courts to accept and create a court order without question.
much like a bitlicence can be used to stop a unregistered business in new york by applying for a takedown order.
so at the moment i cannot see it happening in reality any time soon to stop individuals.. but that can change much like the change that affects businesses in newyork

but just because there is no bitcoin ban law for individuals in 200 countries right now does not mean we should be apathetic and not secure bitcoin more to prepare/prevent the chance of future changes to the law. we should not leave bitcoin weak to internet banning of just 6000 landlines and then sit on our hands and hope to lobby government to not open the weakness to an attack.
we should not rely on government to solve bitcoin security/utility weaknesses. we should secure bitcoin to not rely on governments.

bitcoin should be at a self sustaining state that no law or individual can hamper it. and not at a mediocre state of hope and faith that bad things cant happen.

apathy and hope which causes lazyness is a security risk.
much like blind faith in devs without  personally checking what features and code actually does become a risk.
its how trojans end up on peoples computers because they trust too much that something wont go wrong.

lol popcorn1

20k are just 0.03% of the population.

if you think that sending 0.03% of the population back (1 person per town) is going to solve the waiting lists of 500 homes and hundreds of nhs appointments.. per town then you are really missing the point.

one person cannot live in 500 houses.
one person cannot caus hundreds of appointments.

its not the fault of the one person. its the fault of the councils and parliament wasting money.
sending 20k people back wont free up the cash needed. because the cash is not going to the poor. its going to the rich.

stop reading sheeple media and think for yourself

stop blaming the poor.
start blaming the rich.

put it this way. if there were 2 jobs available.
1 treasury minister
1 immigrant deportation manager.

i feel you will not want to sort out economy to put money where it should go and solve the problem instantly
you would instead prefer to be a racist, deporting people... and for the next 50 years continue being racist because nothing has changed and its all the non-whites fault.

im getting the feeling you dont actually care about how to solve the problems of schools, housing and nhs. but instead want to find excuses to ignore solutions so you can have another 50 years to be racist

well we know the url has 347 in it.
we presume the dots represent keys of a 9 digit numeric keypad.
but what about the triangles.

if you want to be helpful explain what the triangles represent.

honey we have an 'erection' every 4 years but this is the first time you are on top

so you want to get rid of asylum seekers. (unable to work)
but at the same time you also want controlled immigration so that only skilled workers turn up.

guess what.
by taking in skilled people(controlled migration). you are still going to have foreign dentists and doctors.
so drop your racist prejudice about:
"Is you friend a nurse is your friend a dentist?.. They have said they cannot even speak our lingo most of them are with someone who can.."

because controlled migration wont solve foreign WORKERS.
again asylum seekers CANT WORK. so controlled migration has nothing to do with solving employment issues in regards to race.
infact controlled immigration welcomes foreign workers. which is the opposite to what im deeming you prefer

do you know the real way to solve the problems you cry about.
move peoples bank accounts to the bank of england and let the other banks fail.
then use the 44.9billion to increase the number of beds in the NHS and the number of schools.

it seems you prefer to read the sheeple newspapers rather than statistics.

also if you think the councils dont get any funding for 'people on the dole'
actually they do. look back at the ukspending image.. housing = £4billion.

but like i said the councils do not use that funding to make new houses.. they waste it with posh cars and expenses

the solution again is not to throw 0.03% of the population out.. its to actually spend the funds where needed.
EG 4billion housing funding (dole: housing allowance) and another 6 billion from council tenants that DO work = 10billion.

average house build is £80k = 125,000 houses per year could be built.
so instead of moaning about 20,000 asylum seekers over 4 years.. (5k a year)
you should be demanding that the country builds 120,000 homes a year "for our own" and 5000 "for asylum seekers".

but instead you will ignore the actual numbers. and ignore the "expenses" money grabs by councils and mp's and instead follow the sheep media to blame the poor.

imagine you sat at a table in a cake shop. you are sat beside a migrant and a banker.
the waitress brings over a plate of 10 cupcakes..
the banker takes 9 cupcakes. lets you watch the immigrant take 1 and then the banker whispers in your ear "hey buddy the immigrant took your cupcake"
the banker then walks away with 9 cupcakes.

your the kind of person that would let a banker walk away with 9 cupcakes, sat the stewing with evil eyes at the migrant.. rather then
what i would do... dragging the banker back to shout "3 cupcakes each and give the waitress 1 cupcake as a tip"

tip 1.
dont invest in anything claiming to make you more bitcoin, simply by handing funds over, without any other real work involved.

tip 2.
if your hearing about it, you are already at the bottom of the pile and already going to lose out

tip 3.
the person telling you about it is going to make profit from your involvement (if you ignore tip 1). so when you get scammed get your funds back from the guy in profit who informed you about it.

tip 4.
follow tip 1 and then report people who are advertising such schemes so less people are enticed by it and less people become victims

tip 5.
dont ignore rule 1. and rule 4.

tip 6.
follow rules 1. 4.  and 5...

tip 7.
if unsure read rule 6 atleast 10 times

ok. another worse case scenario.

a government could via united nations/interpol set up a sudden international tactical strike

this can be done by
https://bitnodes.21.co/
getting all the IP's and finding out which ISP that ip belongs to.
EG in the UK its under 230..in the U.S its under 1500

so imagine tomorrow under 230 homes out of 20 million households have their internet disconnected
at the same time
in america under 1500 homes out of 100mill households have their internet disconnected
and so on
even things like proxies are useless because the landline has been literally cut off for upto 6000 locations
think its impossible? its not. ISP's have millions of customers and regularly turn the internet off on 10's of thousands of users every week due to breach of contract/non payment of bill.

they would also take bitnodes and other DNS seeding locations offline to further cause drama of new node locations not being able to link up, though smart people will just join an IRC channel and request a list of working ip addresses to manually add node connections

as for the network
what would happen is that the countries with no "partnerships" to whatever agency is organising this tactical strike will continue on. and people who are affected would need to either move house or go to court to get their internet ban lifted or change ISP which can take upto 10 days in some cases.

again it wont require an all out "ban the internet" of 1.5billion people. but instead disconnecting the land lines of under 6000 people to cause alot of drama and issues.

the solution is to get more diverse. instead of bitcoin nodes running in just 91 countries it needs to be running in all 200 countries. and also needs to be running via satalite and other non landline/ISP reliant methods

still seems open to attack by someone setting up several addresses and verifying himself.

but then it all depends on what is being voted in.
eg if its a new law. its easy to verify X senators/mp's did not make a dozen accounts.
but if its a national election how do you know 10%(30mill) of america didnt even bother to register. and some dude however made 25mill addresses in his control to still keep it under the population count

trump wont get in. he is just the side act to get more people to not think about hilary's failures to swing the vote in her favour.

if i was american i would not vote for either and demand another candidate.

last advice.
anyone saying you can download a program that will increase your bitcoin holdings. or offers you a double your money. stay away. these days you need a special device to create new bitcoin by being part of another mechanism of bitcoins security.

apart from:
buying bitcoins from a legit service. (like you did via circle)
selling a product for bitcoin
working (job/starting a business) in exchange for a bitcoin wage,
which are other ways to legitimately get more bitcoin (just like any currency), anything else is just a scam.

dont be fooled by any of these get rich schemes suggesting you can get bitcoin for no effort.