It is a trade-off for sure. Probably an unavoidable one.
In Moneros case increased transactions mean node runners pay (in storage and bandwidth cost -> affects decentralization) less people willing to run nodes. In Bitcoins case limited blocksize mean users of the network pay in transaction fees.
The way I look at it is if the network is too expensive to use those users aren't going to run a node anyway (who is going to run a node for a network they can't afford to use or don't use often?) which also affects decentralization. Both arguments are valid imo. Maybe there is a balance or a better solution will be discovered down the road.
And about Pubkey yea it's fairly small and I'm not on there often but think it has a lot of potential still. Maybe more people will use it once it isn't invite only anymore ๐
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I never looked into the technicals any, but strictly from a userbase pov it's not drawing me. Not gonna hate on it though, clearly some thought and money was spent on it.
Nice summary. I've read enough about small blocks and cheap nodes, so I'll inevitably be biased, but this is interesting as I assume it's been a fertile ground for quality discussion.