Anyone touting that nonsense is incredibly naive and would enjoy the shitcoin world far more than the bitcoin world. Go and play with little toys we're actually trying to obsolete the central bank over here.

Makes complete sense!

He's absolutely right.

It's even worse actually. There will always be developer dictatorship because they are the ones who write software. It's like being literate. Everyone should know how to code, then we can discuss tech democracy.

But what about if the user can modify the filter rules easily? Thats different

He's not entirely right because it's the nodes that decide which software they want to run, not a dictatorship of the developers.

It’s almost as if proof of work was created to disincentivize spam

Is spam the hero to break the centralisation trend. 🤔

Yes

Ah yes, just let node runners around the world wait around for the free market to save them while their hardware costs raise. Nobody is saying this isn’t true, but again, the free market can be wrong longer than the node operator can stay solvent. We must close the largest known attack vectors, ...