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 🙃 🌈