You are missing an important point here, which is that we are operating of the presumption that the majority of miners will not act maliciously. After all if this presumption was not true then Bitcoin would be fundamentally flawed anyway.
Nope, this is not what I'm talking about. I could try explaining it from the begging, but I don't feel it is worth our time since it is about a hypothetical situation (100 MB block size limit with 5 MB average usage).
I would say that we should think for ourselves, listen to the arguments of both sides and make up your own mind. I would argue that it is your authoritarian logic that is flawed.
Yeah, keep drinking the kool-aid from people that have limited knowledge and impaired abilities.
What johnyj wants is something I call CoinbaseCoin. CoinbaseCoin is what we'd get if we prematurely (IE prior to post-fiat Cryptopia) restrict Bitcoin to data centers, ignoring
the engineering requirement it be above the law.
When Bitcoin has accomplished its primary mission of disrupting central banking and ensuring Chancellors may no longer consider bailouts for TBTF banks,
then we may relegate most full nodes to data centers. But until we usher in the Golden Age of Satoshi, full nodes must be kept in places where the long arm of the BIS cannot easily reach.
Well said.