Re: Reponce to Roger Ver's "Time to End the Block-Size Blockade" essay
Overall this essay is an embarrassment, and anti-intellectual. I can only assume that Roger didnt put this essay out to rigours peer-review before publishing it.
Was something better expected from Ver, the person who has been spreading bullshit ever since the time of Mt.Gox? These articles are just an attempt to gather more support for their HF. It's unfortunate that they go social media instead of actually trying to improve the existing infrastructure.Yes nodes can ignore segwit and consider it an altcoin, they can prune, they can reject inbound...
No, they can't consider Segwit "an altcoin".It's important to recognize that hardware and internet bandwidth has improved over the last 7 years.
People keep saying that, yet the number of nodes is on a steady decline. Do I have to note that the resource usage kept growing tremendously over the 7 years?This is where the philosophical difference comes to a head. Some feel that without a production quota on blocksize, set by a priesthood of Core devs, miners would simply bloat blocks to infinity.
They certainly would not be the first 'group' to spam the network in an attempt to support their vision.It would and will exist with miners facing the free market and subsequently setting their own production levels. Beware the dangers of a centrally planned economy.
So in a scenario in which miners get paid to set them to abrupt levels, all is fine right? 