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TheKayman 2 weeks ago
Your response tacitly acknowledges that you think there should be no more forks / updates / fixes, and that bitcoin should ossify. Arbitrary data has definitely disrupted the usage of bitcoin as money over the last 3 years. Have you tried syncing a node recently on an older but still fairly capable laptop. Syncs very fast until about 70%, then completely hits a wall, with an estimated time to finish of over a year. This forced me to spend $800 on a more powerful machine. I suspect that most people will turn away from that and therefore a lesser ratio of people using bitcoin will run nodes. This does not just disrupt bitcoin as money, but also disrupts bitcoin as a decentralised network.

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