Bitcoin with a 1MB blocksize does not scale well with low end nodes as they promised. It's been 50 days and the mempool is nowhere near close to clearing and low end hardware cannot keep up.
Bitcoin Core always talks about how the 1MB limit ensures that hard disk space, bandwidth and CPU scaling is never a problem.
However the results of artificially constraining the blocksize has created a backlog of transactions in the mempool where the mempool hasn't been cleared in over 50 days now and is only getting bigger. A raspberry pi with 256MB of memory is now dropping transactions and is not able to keep up with the Bitcoin network at the 1MB constraint. Why didn't the geniuses in Bitcoin Core and Blockstream remember to scale for memory as well if they're in support of low end nodes being able to keep up with the Bitcoin network?
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