Thanks ser. I’m really trying to wrap my head around this because I’m on the other side of this from a lot of people I respect. Trying to understand and appreciate your responses. 

Aren’t all transaction fees bribes? Aren’t we all bribing? And isn’t anyone interacting with the blockchain other than miners a user/merchant? Is the issue here they are not users of its payments value prop and are instead users of another attribute of the chain that payment users do not value?