pebwindkraft, at some point, you may be wasting your time.

dinofelis is wrong, has repeatedly been wrong, is persistently and incorrigibly wrong.  In every thread he fills with long, tortuous argumentation, everything he says is shot full of holes by people who actually know what they’re talking about.  He still fills threads with long, tortuous argumentation.

Downplaying the importance of nodes is a hallmark of people pushing a certain agenda, for which dinofelis gives talking points.  (“The only reason why they talk Joes into running nodes in their basement, is because bitcoin needs a story, and decentralization sounds like a good selling argument.”)  Whereas nodes represent the economic majority on the network, and collectively have more power than miners or exchanges.  We have seen that repeatedly demonstrated within the past 6–8 months.  Indeed, if “nobody will give a shit” about nodes, then NYA/2X would have taken over the network; instead, NYA/2X was cancelled in a face-saving maneuver.  Originally, closed-doors power-player NYA had been backed and indeed, promulgated by some of the most powerful exchanges and miners!

This is in addition to, and an extension of, what you said about UASF and whence came NYA in the first instance.

dinofelis speaks of a “PoW oligarchy”, which demonstrates how little he understands about how Bitcoin works.  (Hint:  Miners have one, only one, exactly one very important job—Byzantine agreement for transaction ordering—whereas all else is done by nodes.)

Moreover, on the face of things, anybody who uses the phrase “nobody will give a shit” as a technical argument is neither competent nor serious.  Sloppy and vulgar speech on a technical topic belies sloppy and vulgar technical thinking.

Perhaps your time could be better spent.