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 I just listened to @dylan on the @petermccormack show, What Bitcoin Did, and he said something I found really profound, in a very off-hand manner. He was taking about transaction fees on the Bitcoin timechain becoming more and more expensive as time goes by (easter egg alert). Then he said that the block space is in and of itself a commodity. Whoa! Mind-blowing. Not only is Bitcoin a commodity (Gensler approved) but it's block size is also a commodity. So meta. No wonder the block size winners, Bitcoiners, won. They intuitively knew in their bones that increasing the block storage limit would make Bitcoin security, not a commodity. I wonder if he realized how brilliant what he said.