Replying to Avatar Jack Spirko

Unpopular and may be at the same time popular opinion on the block size argument related to the ability for everyone to run a full node being necessary for #Bitcoin.

I am not for increase in the block size but I think this all plebs must be able to run a full node shit is the worst argument we have against it.

First space keeps getting cheaper. Second most "plebs" don't run a node already let alone a full node.

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 all the way 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. Do you ever think, I wonder if that transaction from 2016 is still valid, I had better check? No. Why? You understand the tech and are sane that is why.

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 shitcoin 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 count. 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.

We do need the full nodes as well because from them nodes can be born. Maybe I'm wrong, I don't think pruned nodes can come from pruned nodes.

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You are correct, I am not opposed to a full node and I run well two actually.

My point is this social argument is a moronic argument. If it costs 5X over right now to run a full node most already running one would still do it.

Running a node is something people do because they want to. People spend a lot more than the cost of a big SSD on tons of shit just because they want it. This is no different.

Our argument about the cost of storage is as stupid as the BCH shitcoiners arguments about this mythical "poor person in Africa" in the middle of a desert that can't use LN because they can't afford an LN node.