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NVK | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Opinion are like assholes, everyone has a unique one.
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Vitor Pamplona | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 They should turn those opinions into forks and let the public decide which coin has more value and which node to run.
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Joda | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 But "the public" is only nodes. Malicious actor could spin up 20k Sybil nodes overnight, fork, and be the "consensus chain".
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Vitor Pamplona | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Yep and that will be an important lesson.
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NVK | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Only economic nodes matter.
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Greg Tonoski | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What is your definition of the "economic node"?
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DRUNKODELL | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Transaction or miner
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Greg Tonoski | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Unclear or doublespeak.
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DRUNKODELL | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Transactor or miner.
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Greg Tonoski | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 So, "economic node" is simply transactor by your definition (miners are transactors too)? Why creating the new term "economic node"?
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DRUNKODELL | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 To insult and demoralize plebs running uneconomic nodes. Leave my Core devs alone. They’re busy upgrading Bitcoin for all types of permissionless things. Imagine real estate on Bitcoin. Or our podcasts.