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My vision of reality is uncomfortable for many, I do not know if I have the truth or not, nobody knows that and truth is often subjective, especially in social facts.

But that discomfort that my opinions create for some, is the clue that brings me closer to a truth as objective as possible.

I'll give you an example, every day I have more and more clear that custody solutions are not bad, since we have no way to scale Bitcoin to everyone, you must accept this type of solutions if or if, the alternative to this is the Fiat that besides being counterfeitable is custody if you use banks.

Now the followers of Monero will come to say that Monero solves this, but they are not able to understand that Monero has sacrificed the decentralization of the base layer in order to be scalable, so everything is already destroyed. If Monero ever becomes popular, no one will be able to run their own nodes, so you will no longer be able to verify transactions by yourself and Monero will end up being a trust system with the old Fiat since there will be no possibility of consensus by the common man.

Also, so-called maximalists will come to criticize escrow solutions, when in fact they are not maximalist because all they want to do is to decide on the people who will not be able to opt for a Lightning channel or to pay for a blockchain transaction if Bitcoin is massively adopted.

Do you want more controversial examples? Because I have many, especially from the second world war 😂

Why would no one be able to run their own Monero nodes?

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yeah hes pretty light on the specifics... 🙄

this is just "trust custodial systems on Bitcoin because I think the solutions are bad"

monero can handle Bitcoins transaction volume. hardware keeps getting cheaper.

this is old FUD.

Maybe he means that Monero has a bigger block size than Bitcoin, which would, if the theory is correct, push the storage requirements of running a Monero node out of reach for average people.

yeah pretty sure that's what he means.

Pretty sure they're going to make the blocks heavier in the next update as well.

Inevitable that the blocks get heavier & heavier as more complexity is needed.

IIRC, a modern CPU cannot handle the verification of more than a few hundred Monero transactions per second. That's the main bottleneck.