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Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Bitcoin fees are currently only a dollar, but niche programmers are suggesting to change the fundamental nature of bitcoin and increase its attack surface to make it more scalable… for people who don’t necessarily know or understand the trade offs of that scaling.

Scaling is an important discussion, but everything is a trade off. I like many of the scaling discussions, but rushing them is another matter.

It costs me $100 to buy a 1oz gold coin by mail, or to send signed documents internationally in a few days. Verification is expensive.

The idea that global monetary verification should be super cheap inherently comes with security trade offs.

All ideas should be evaluated carefully and come to major consensus. Otherwise change proposers risk a fork war.

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Ben Ewing 1y ago 💬 1

How about we just make the blocks bigger and tell anyone who wants to centralise and fuck with it to fuck off and we will kill them if they try

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Money Isn't Necessary 1y ago 💬 1

increasing the block size might actually be the centralization.

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