Why the hell does Monero align itself with the retarded small blocker camp? The more I research it, the more obvious it is to me that the small blockers in Bitcoin, Bitcoin Core, have just done horrible damage to Bitcoin's scalability and adoption (literally over 80% of the world earns less daily income than your BTC tx fee).
I know this isn't really the right place for it but I just really want to respond to this. I'm a small blocker myself. Let me explain why.
Increasing the block size IS NOT A SOLUTION to the scaling problem. We would run into unacceptable centralization pressures before we even began to approach blocks large enough to facilitate any acceptable level for a global currency. What it is is the illusion of a solution. What is so dangerous about the illusion of a solution is that it marginalizes the urgency of this problem. 1MB blocks is a very useful fire underneath everyone's asses. Once real solutions are developed than I'm all for safe increases in block size that parallel increases in network and data storage improvements if they work hand in hand with said real solutions. Until then I don't think it behooves us to remove that fire. Not if our main concern is the long term prospects of the crypto currency movement.
This position may very well be wrong. I am certainly wrong sometimes. But i'm confident that it is not immediately obvious that it is "retarded" and I think anyone who would claim that it is has not really been open minded to the arguments of their opposition.
I agree, you are completely right.
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