Let’s focus on earth first. Not making needed changes because we’re worried about it not working on Mars is very dumb IMO.

I would also like to bring some attention to the possibility of Bitcoin being a multi-planetary network. Small blocks and long block times would help keep the network secure even if we were to begin to explore our solar system. This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately. I wish I knew of more resources that discuss it further.

ugmug_old

Do you mean the bandwidth for the initial download? 
For synced node, the bandwidth needed is afaik roughly 15GB up, 15GB down per month.
That means you need 5kB/s (15,000,000/30/24/60/60) symmetric at least - and that indeed seems to be the order of magnitude of incoming transactions listed at https://mempool.space. 

nout

Storage isn’t the bottleneck bandwidth is, at least for L1 nodes. I suspect the same is true of lightning as well. 

cliftonbride

bitcoin

Hear me out: How can we start talking about a blocksize increase?

Currently we are in the "you need 1TB SSD" state. The question is how many years from now is this going to flip to "you need 2TB SSD". 