Why do people always want to have it their way? Who are you to decide that using the blockchain can't be free?
I'm not deciding it, I'm just telling you how it works. The reward is what makes miners protect bitcoin. If there is no reward there is no protection.
What reward? Isn't a 25BTC reward enough to protect the network right now?
I think that the blockchain should be free for regular users and shouldn't be free for the ones that are using the blockchain for running a service/project/business/etc. We can have them both (free and paid), but we need to be open and not be horse-sighted.
That's only possible if mining is monopolized and they require registration before using. I hope you don't get your way.
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Again you only see one single version of what could possibly happen. Why can't we have services that are willing to pay a fee for various reasons? It seems that you are ignoring services like GreenAddress who might be willing to pay a higher than normal fee to protect against double spends or for whatever reason they come up? Let me get back to the Internet analogy. I am sure that Google or Facebook pay a shit tons of money for their internet connections while you pay only dimes compared to them. You can not pay anything if you connect through one of the many available WiFi hotspots. Why can't we have this with the blockchain too?
nobody would use it because people won't buy new HD's just to run gavincoin
Pruning! We only need to develop a method to not store all the blockchain and we got rid of that problem. We got a robot to Mars, I am sure that we can find a way around a bloated blockchain!
What's the value delivered?
stupid question. GTFO
I insist that you answer. What's in your view the value delivered by Bitcoin?
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Also nobody gives the slightest fuck about lighthouse.
You should give a fuck about services/projects that can't run to their full potential because of a block size limit (or because some people want it
their way) if you care about bitcoin.