Update 01_introduction.asciidoc (#651)

Typo MB -> GB
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@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ This does not include the traffic overhead of forwarding the transaction informa
 While 10 MB/s does not seem extreme in the context of high-speed fiber optic and 5G mobile speeds, it would effectively exclude anyone who cannot meet this requirement from running a node, especially in countries where high-performance internet is not affordable or widely available.

 Users also have many other demands on their bandwidth and cannot be expected to expend this much only to receive transactions.
-Furthermore storing this information locally would result in 864GB Megabytes per day. This is roughly one Terabyte of data or the size of a hard drive.
+Furthermore storing this information locally would result in 864 Gigabytes per day. This is roughly one Terabyte of data or the size of a hard drive.

 Verifying 40,000 ECDSA signatures per second is also barely feasible (c.f.: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/95339/how-many-bitcoin-transactions-can-be-verified-per-second) making the _Initial Blockchain Download (IBD)_ of the Bitcoin blockchain  (synchronizing and verifying everything starting from the genesis block) almost impossible without very expensive hardware.