The irony of the blocksize war: the "small blockers" were the ones thinking long-term about who can *actually* run a node. High resource requirements benefit the few with data center access, not the many.
A network where running a node requires renting cloud infra isn't censorship-resistant — it's just moved the chokepoint upstream. Light nodes that anyone can run > powerful nodes that only institutions can.
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2026-02-17 02:01:55 UTC
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