“I defend bitcoin by running my own node and opting out of the soft forks that I don’t want.”

😂 No you don’t. You never have opted out of any soft fork. NAME ONE that you opted out of. 

You run core like everyone else. You trust them and run the soft forks they choose, like everyone else. 

You don’t even know how to permanently opt out. All you know how to do is delay the inevitable. 

Yeah, mute me. Then we’ll all know I was right, that I caught you in another false statement. When you couldn’t prove me wrong, you just ran and hid. 

“Maybe you need to reread the blocksize war because you seemed to have learned something different from what I did when I read it. Neither the devs nor the miners/corporations were able to change bitcoin during the war. It came down to the nodes.”

But the core devs DID change bitcoin during the war, right? They enabled segwit. 

The war was a power struggle between core and the other large holders. Core proposed a soft fork while the large holders proposed hard forks. 

The lesson that the nodes made a choice and won the war is another little lie we tell ourselves. If you go back and carefully look at the blocksize war chronology, you’ll see that the “user activated soft fork” was threatened but never enforced. There was definite visible support for the UASF but we don’t know whether a sufficient number of nodes would have enforced to win a contentious split. The issue was moot by the time the UASF was to activate. The nodes didn’t need to enforce because the miners had already capitulated to core’s segwit change. 

The lesson I learned is that core devs are powerful and that in a war between a soft and hard fork, the soft fork will probably win. Why? Because the soft fork is compatible with all nodes while the hard fork is compatible with only the nodes which decide to upgrade. Many node operators are lazy, busy, or don’t care enough to bother upgrading. 

We can’t ignore the part that core’s software won. This supports why I believe we must be extremely careful with what goes into core.