bitcoin doesn't live in the ether or the cloud. there is no one bitcoin. you pc running a bitcoin node is the bitcoin. we have multiple bitcoin instances everywhere. bitcoin is the node you run. bitcoin is the node i run. bitcoin is the nodes we all run. they are all bitcoin, individually. that's what "decentralized" is in the context of bitcoin. running your own node is one of the MOST important thing about bitcoin. without it, bitcoin is not longer decentralized. everything in the genesis of bitcoin designed to keep it as easy as to run. yes we need to have a timechain, so we can prevent double spending, keep track of the utxos we might receive one day. make sure they are not spent. keep track of our lightning channels. its a necessary compromise. we limited the block size, we slowed down the block time to 10 mins. so it doesnt become a big burden. people sacrifice their storage space, so they can prevent double spending. anything more is a burden, unnecessary burden. so its not surprising people want less of the burden on their ledger. and its their ledger. its not one ledger. bitcoin is not a democracy. everyone has their own ledger and if you dont have the utxo on my ledger then your utxo is not valid. idk man, i talk too much.