What is there for me to acknowledge? His defence of Bitcoin was, as I said, woolly. It can be read different ways by different people. But at the very least Bitcoin Classic and Bitfury has reached some kind of overlapping consensus on the urgent need for a 2MB hard fork.
That announcement was very precise. As long as people agree on the technical implementation they don't need to agree about every little thing or thought regarding Bitcoin.
Ok, we either fundamentally disagree with the principles being contradictory or you simply do not want to discuss the details I outlined. I'll respect your position and move on to other topics.
[Satoshi obviously understands human nature and planned Bitcoin accordingly. One of the mistakes he admitted was offering no reward for running a full node. People still do it with the best interests of the network in mind, but there are decreasing numbers of people prepared to do it for nothing. There would be an order of magnitude more nodes if people were rewarded for running one.
Yes, Satoshi made many mistakes despite being a genius, he/she/they are human afterall. Right now the only incentive for running a full node is the extra security it brings . As we know in the wider security world people in general value convenience over security so this isn't enough of an incentive to increase node diversity. One of many things that excites me about the p2p decentralized Lightning network proposal is that it may give us an incentive to bring back more nodes by paying full nodes a portion of the tx fees they facilitate. The right balance would need to be made to incentivize LN nodes and Mining nodes but I believe it can be achieved.