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If I may…..

You’re conflating some things that are important to distinguish between. I (and many others) run nodes not to mine but to interact with the protocol in the designed (and intended) P2P way.

Without any “middleman” or agent.

This is a big part of what makes Bitcoin Bitcoin.

I go through my freakout moments from time to time as well, but in the end, if this network is as fragile (to bad actors) as you are saying, then it was worth nothing to begin with.

Sit with that. If it bothers you, sell your bitcoin and move on. Bitcoin doesn’t care.

Peace ✌️

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gojiberra 4mo ago

yeah, i need to learn some more. just woke up to this debate so most of what i'm sayng is just rehashing smarter peoples' observations.

but it's how i learn.

today was the first day in my orange tinted happy life that i was a little unsure of running bitcoin.

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 4mo ago

yeah, that's why they are doing this, to try and centralize the chain so they can take over. that's why they have bought off all the core devs, thinking that they are the most important devs in the bitcoin world.

The Bird 4mo ago

That concern doesn't make it fragile. It gives state actors ability to try and do things like criminalize small node runners and work to seize BTC holdings for criminal actions for someone storing it.

There's nothing wrong with trying to find a solution at preventing it and in turn further strengthen the network. That seems like the affirming the consequent logical fallacy IMO

Chris 4mo ago

Nothing wrong with that, indeed 🙏🏻