I guess for you the article is a TL;DR. There was NOT a suggestion of
   simple confiscation. All one had to do, to prevent "reclamation", is to
   periodically move assets on the blockchain.

   On Jul 2, 2018 5:19 PM, "juan" <[1]juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:

   On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 22:37:15 +0000 (UTC)
   jim bell <[2]jdb10987@yahoo.com> wrote:
   >
   >
   >     On Sunday, July 1, 2018, 11:09:34 PM PDT, juan
   <[3]juan.g71@gmail.com> wrote:
   >
   >  On Mon, 2 Jul 2018 00:22:03 -0400
   > grarpamp <[4]grarpamp@gmail.com> wrote:
   >
   >
   >  "   as you know grarpamp (or maybe you dont know?) the size of
   bitcoins ledger is ~200 gbytes at the moment. "
   >
   >
   > On Amazon, I see a 200 GB micro SD card being sold for $71.  A 256 GB
   micro SD card is sold for $120.  Rather spendy, but within the realm of
   possibility.

             And? You can buy a 2 terabytes HD for $50 or so(or less?). I
     suggest you do that if you want to store the blockchain, SD cards
     aren't reliable - HDs are cheaper and better. But guess what?
     Storage isn't the problem anyway.
             The problem is that peers have to transmit and process the
     whole ledger.
             And the answer "so called moore's law will magically solve
     everything" isn't too convincing.

   >
   > About "a Gigabyte::  In my college days, 1978, we had a comedic,
   fictional dormitory organization called "TWePOE"  ("Third West Power
   Elite").   I, the only one with a functional personal computer on my
   hallway (my own homebrew "Bellyache I", a comedic take on the famous
   "ILLIAC 4), my room became the "GBDSC", short for "Gigabyte Data
   Storage Center", a subsidiary of the organization "MOIA", short for
   "Ministry of Information Abuse", whose ominous motto was, "We've got a
   file on YOU!"
   >
   > I chose "Gigabyte" because, at that time, it was such an
   inconceivably fantasticly large amount of data storage so as to be
   awe-inspiring.  (An 8 inch SSSD floppy disk stored a grand 240
   kilobytes of data, so it would have taken more than 4100 of them to
   house a full gigabyte.)
   > Today, the idea that I could buy 1 million times the storage of one
   of those 240 kilobyte floppies, held in a wafer smaller than my
   pinky-fingernail, remains amazing to me.
   >         Jim Bell
   >
   >

References

   1. mailto:juan.g71@gmail.com
   2. mailto:jdb10987@yahoo.com
   3. mailto:juan.g71@gmail.com
   4. mailto:grarpamp@gmail.com