IDK and I am not for increase in the block size but I think this node shit is the worst arguement we have against it. First space keeps getting cheaper. Second most "plebs" don't run a node already.

Lastly, do we really need all nodes running back to the genesis block. Pretty sure a pruned node that goes back say 5 years is honest as long as you can go back if you want to.

This we all need a node back to genesis is a dumb argument. Once I have the next block I already trust it. Have we ever retroactively fixed a 5 year old "error" in the chain? No. Will we ever, no.

When we make dumb arguments, we invite attack against our dumb arguments and make the oppositions job easier.

As always I tell anyone wishing to change BTC to get bent. It will change when consensus changes and when consensus changes it is still bitcoin, when it doesn't, it is a shit coin fork. That is THE argument. That is the protocol layer argument.

Everything else is social, a popularity of ideas argument and those are stupid and always end badly. In a way BTC is like the early US, only the votes of property owners counts. You ain't running a node, you don't get a vote.

BCH people are a perfect example, I don't know ONE BCH tard that runs a BCH full node, not one. I tell them you don't even vote in your own republic, fuck the hell off out of mine.