[Offline] 50GB Static Testnet

[stout77]

@dirvine

Some confusion here. We are looking at having much smaller nodes, so folk can run many at once if they want to store more. That allows more parallelization It also helps churn a lot.

Sorry but that’s a separate issue. If smaller nodes simplifies things, sure.
But in relation to Elders:

@dirvine

Think like this, Adults are like disk drives in a computer. Store stuff there and let it be. In a section they are almost append only immutable data stores.

Elders have massive amounts of work to do and possibly too much. They take care (atm) of all mutable data, transfers (safecoin), client connections, Adult penalties and all network agreements/consensus.

I only go by what was said in the past, when the decision was taken to have Elders not to store data. Although, as others, I didn’t necessarily agree, I thought it made sense if the load was to much for Elders.
If the optimisations that have been put in place in the meantime allow to bring back storage to Elders, happy days. But frankly I believe it’s premature; churn has taken down elders in previous testnets way too easly even without that, and that’s even without splits.