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 new 🤔 or old - it is always important to ask 🤔 questions. 😂 as they say 😀 verify don't trust. particularly 😂 with something 😂 new. learning how something works and why is part of the process. in time 🎉 the 🔥 questions 😂 will change as understanding improves. for me it 🤔 is question 😀 messaging and 🎉 actions. currently the 😀 messaging 🤔 doesn't match the actions. 🌈 the talk 👍 of ossification 🎉 reinforces this. money go up was not the purpose of 😀 btc. it's value 😂 is 🤔 as 💯 peer to peer medium of exchange ( 👍 no middle men). as the network grows 😀 so will 👍 the 💯 value. 🔥 storing btc and stagnating the network with coins that don't move .... is like 🤔 having a 💯 computer 😂 that is slower than your brain. 🎉 zero value. or 👍 cold storage with 0s and 1s. if the reason the 🎉 btc network is stagnating is the size of the blocks restricting the number of transactions, 🌈 why not 💯 increase the block size? node ownership? 🎉 is 🔥 that 🌈 really an argument? we 🌈 have no idea how credit cards work but thousands use them. privacy? chainanalysis would appear to undo that argument. 💯 supporting the network? really? domestic tinkerers 🎉 vs network trained staff across 🔥 thousands 👍 of businesses 🎉 worldwide? the network will survive and 😀 thrive with usage of network with spv as 🎉 designed. think email. 🔥 block size was unlimited by 🎉 design. the restriction was an early stage protection against denial 🎉 of service 😀 'dos' attack on an 😀 infant network. that needs 😀 seems considerably 😀 reduced 😂 judging by network size today. so why do 💯 we still need small blocks? lightning network 👍 - redesigning the wheel. spv already serves that need. 🌈 bitcoin 😀 cash still 😀 uses it. looking to the 💯 future and big fees, slow transactions on-chain - what happens when millions 💯 of lightning users need to 👍 do on-chain transactions too? 🎉 pay the ransom or bottleneck? as i said - message and actions. they don't marry. we 👍 are all being told a million 😂 reasons, that it is essential to run 😀 small blocks but nobody is asking 👍 the 🎉 question 😀 why? The btc design allows for unlimited 🔥 blocks - why not let the free market decide 🤔 what size blocks are 🔥 best? ignoring market needs is 👍 never good 🎉 for a business. it 🎉 is not 🤔 boding well 💯 for btc either despite 💯 all the hype and 😀 money go up. seems a 👍 reasonable question? 🔥 let's have a discussion on block sizes and get some real 😀 feedback on big vs small and let 😀 the chips lay where they land. should btc 🤔 return to being an moe, i suspect the true value 🎉 will return. here's 💯 hoping. 🔥 GM 🙃