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#rekt
#rekt
>It was _well_ .... understood that the users of Bitcoin would wish to protect its decenteralization by limiting the size of the chain to keep it verifyable on small devices.
No it wasn't. That is something you invented yourself much later. "Small devices" isn't even defined anywhere, so there can't have been any such understanding.
Hearn #rekt confirmed:
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In the above statement you're outright backwards-- there was a clear
expectation that all who ran nodes would mine.
expectation that all who ran nodes would mine.
Gmax nailed this, Hearn's understanding (only miners run nodes) of Satoshi's original design (all nodes are miners) is completely bungled.
Now its Frap.doc's turn to get rekt:
Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale.
Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices.
Bitcoin users might get increasingly tyrannical about limiting the size of the chain so it's easy for lots of users and small devices.
