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 haha, the final boss of big blockers is human psychology, sorry but that's gonna be a no from me, i certainly won't run a bitcoin node with an altered reward schedule, neither will at least another 15k node runners out there, and many of those are pool miners and the pools will make blocks with the schedule and the heaviest block wins will ensure that until you can find a way to double that hash rate capacity at the same time as putting it in the hands of big blockers, will you succeed

why do you think that craig wright is trying a social/government attack anyway?

because he knows, being a reasonably competent computer scientist, and game theorist, that you can't win without a massive economic advantage against the established customs

maybe some day you will come to understand the low time preference benefits of not ratting out your competitor in a prisoner's dilemma