Locke : What do you suppose is in that block, Charlie?
Charlie : I don't know. A - a - a crypto, I guess.
Locke : No, it's much more beautiful than that. That's Bitcoin. It's ironic - crypto get all the attention, but Bitcoin, it does all the proof of work. It's stronger. It's faster.
Charlie : That's wonderful, but...
Locke : You see this little block? This block is just about to be found by a miner. It's in there right now, struggling. It's digging its way through the hashing function. Now, I could help it - take my fork, gently increase the block size, and the mempool would be free - but it would be too weak to survive. Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it. Now this is the second time you've asked me to change the block size... ask me again, and it's yours.