Yes. Trust the experts and let yourself be ruled, peasant. Trust the science and take the jab. That attitude is antithetical to the Bitcoin ethos. We, who run the nodes, don't have enough proof-of-work? When the decentralization and at-home scale mining comes in full force (thanks to BitAxe and such) the argument will change to scale of mining. The goal post will always keep moving to try and form a small and centralized sphere of influence.
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You missed the point entirely. I’m not saying people should sit back and say nothing. I’m saying that they shouldn’t weight in on technical subjects unless they’re prepared to listen and try and understand the answer.
Crying foul and attacking devs with a misunderstanding of the subject is fucking bullshit.
If that is what you intended then you should have been more careful about encapsulating and dividing into two clean groups the people involved via the "tech" and "non-tech". This seems like an ad-hominem argument of "you" don't know about this, therefor you should not speak about it and no one should listen to you. You can't say "red" and then expect people to know that you actually meant "green".
Now, I agree with you about the understanding portion. I do think it comes down to prioritizing different things on Bitcoin. And that is not a technical question.