Blockstream is working for the US gov. They have to choke the blocksize in order to force users off-chain. That's the only way for western banks to remain in power.
this is the dumbest thing i have ever heard!
i am against off-chain probably more than anyone, and i'd rather use an altcoin instead but i fail to see how people using off chain transactions would benefit US gov and their evil plans.
and at the same time, what makes sense is the US gov wanting to increase the block size to an absurd amount (8MB for example) to centralize the nodes and can easily monitor things. and by taking over the development even inject backdoors in the nodes and wallets people use.
You just accused him of FUD and then countered with at least twice the FUD? Lol k.
Well either scenario is perfectly possible. To me the difference is that in the case of offchain transactions people can still decide to use an onchain transaction when necessary. In the case of nodes, you're just fucked.
That said, I don't think that the "nodes taking up datacenters" scenario is at all likely.
decentralized. In my opinion if we have 1000 full nodes instead of 5000 full nodes
There are far more than 5,000 full nodes. There are
8,751 listening nodes, of which 5,570 are Core nodes, but the total node count including non-listening nodes is well into the tens of thousands (we can't know an exact number).
What people don't understand about larger block sizes is that right now, a rich person could set up 50,000 nodes and own the majority of them. Of course they could. When there is a larger block size and nodes take up more space and bandwidth, a rich person could own the majority of nodes for a similar cost - people would run less nodes, and each node would cost more to run. So if there's a malicious person, they could just go ahead and do it regardless of the block size.
The government regulation problem only comes into play when it's literally impossible for people to run nodes from their homes and almost no one does.
