I have been out of the loop for a while, but testing the waters on Evo forced me to install the Bitcoin client on my pc because I had to generate info for multi-sig. Imagine my horror when a couple of days later I get an error message saying my SSD was full... I was like, 'wut?'. And then of course, I couldn't just uninstall it because I wasn't really in the groove and knew that I had a wallet address tied to my multi-sig (and two days of bandwidth), so I had to muddle about and do an ugly sym-link hack to move the damned blockchain to another hard drive (you can use the -datadir way too, but I moved the whole thing out of appdata).
So, ummm... Just how big is this shit planning to get? I assume it will simply continue to grow, nonstop, forever, and if you want an up to date wallet you will have to carry the stone of shame on shackled to your ankle for all time? I can rationalize 30+ Gig for underage animal snuff pr0n, but the size of the blockchain data is off the hook.
The average adult has 22 square feet of skin. Even with the finest tattoo needle there is no chance of carrying this info around on your person anymore. If we get a Carrington event strong enough to overwhelm my galvanized garbage can Faraday cage full of thumb drives, how will I get my hamster steroid order finalized?
Stop smoking crack. Please.