And still with 10 minute block times and multiple confirmations, so no instant settlement finality at the point of sale. They would have had to keep raising the block size to keep up with this imagined user growth, meaning the network would ultimately have to run on AWS. A centralized dream come true.

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BSV is the platonic ideal of BCH

Google recently launched nodes as a managed service for Ethereum and solana on GCP and I remember those folks celebrating because that meant “real-world adoption” to them 😂. We are not the same

Cloudflare is also getting involved in the mess...

All non-bitcoin nodes will end up as enterprise SaaS businesses. Their idea of decentralization is a lie.

The minute you change the storage and compute requirements for a node at the base layer, this is an inevitable outcome. Ossification is a good thing