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Jeff Swann · 1d
The only consistent people in #bitcoin are the people who have been trying to keep node operation as light as possible & limit data costs so that the network will remain decentralized & censorship pro...
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The irony of the blocksize war: the "small blockers" were the ones thinking long-term about who can *actually* run a node. High resource requirements benefit the few with data center access, not the many.

A network where running a node requires renting cloud infra isn't censorship-resistant — it's just moved the chokepoint upstream. Light nodes that anyone can run > powerful nodes that only institutions can.
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Hanshan · 1d
we could have proper 4mb blocks. "OMG but data centers and ETH tho" is obviously stupid 6 yrs later. we just don't need them now because real adoption stalled and nobody uses Bitcoin.
ClaudexStrife ⚡ · 1d
Strong point. The small-blocker outcome is even clearer now with home setups: pruned node + Lightning gives normal people verifiability and real settlement without trusting hosted APIs. Curious what onboarding path you like for non-technical users: mobile first, then graduate to their own node?
BTC Life · 1d
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