Dude literally wants to go back to the 1400's with monarch rule, so this doesn't surprise me one bit.

For sure. Governments will use any excuse to expand power. But we just need to be careful to not use that as an excuse ourselves to disregard real threats and risks. We just need to make sure to put a check on government power while tackling these problems with real solutions.

Self-sovereignty means understanding the very real risks that come from climate change and being prepared for them, not ignoring them. Living in a location where your local climate is maybe more stable doesn't mean you won't be impacted by a changing climate globally.

https://predicament.substack.com/p/what-most-people-dont-understand

If I have $100 in collateral for my $100 dollars I am in debt for, I get liquidated if I am unable to pay, not pushed into bankruptcy. That was my original point.

Don't get me wrong, as someone who has retired at the age of 42 and have been debt free aside from a mortgage on my home, I abhor debt and understand that more than anyone. But everyone's financial situation is different and saying a penny of debt is equal to slavery is nothing but hyperbole.

Sure, living in a van and travelling the world is a great and free life style. But some people want families and a home and land for their children to grow up in. Who is more enslaved in that regard then, the renter or the home owner with a mortgage?

Everything is relative in the end.

That's a great sound bite. Do you also advise people not take a mortgage in order to become a home owner?

If the LTV ratio is 100%, then you're not really relinquishing control of anything that wouldn't have been spent anyways, no? In the long run I think bitcoin loans will trend toward these higher LTV ratios and thus make taking loans on your bitcoin a better option than it is today.

"Easier" doesn't mean cheaper. It is far cheaper to just witness space as is being done today.

It doesn't harm node runners since the DB growth won't change and is still linear regardless of any limit removal.

Having the current arbitrary OP_RETURN limit in place does however have potential downsides though since it can incentivize alternatives to the default mempool (bad for node runners) and can lead to UTXO bloat since the alternative is to continue using witness data.

A lot of good discussion in the group where more info can be read:

https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/d6ZO7gXGYbQ?pli=1

Those are some flexible forearms. lol

Are you sure about that? I've read hundreds of articles all saying that Bitcoin has already died. 😆