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jtown · 2w
Sure, but what happens if the big business that abuses customers has a competitor open up shop down the street? Customers end up at the business treating them right and not leeching off them. Buyin...
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When the product is money, or really anything where network effects matter, I think you'll find that purity spiraling gets you nowhere.

See: betamax.

And this is leaving out the matter of most of the perceived abuse being something I take as a misunderstanding about the reality of peer to peer networks and plain wishful thinking. I'd much rather junk in op_return than the UTXO set.

What we got wasn't a better business opening up down the street. It was the angry customers opening up a co-op only to find that overhead costs and logistical realities are a lot harder to address than they reckoned. Seems many haven't come to terms with that yet.
jtown · 2w
I fundamentally disagree. To me it's a matter of priority. Monero doesnt have arbitrary data littered into transactions and the new bitcoin hardfork won't either. To me it's about trusting the network to prioritize future full nodes, and I dont believe core and the industry built around bitcoin ca...