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Bob | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 With lightning you have centralization of payments and custodianship of btc. Whilst the big blockers supported centralization of nodes running/mining the protocol. Small blockers helped nerds run nodes, big blockers helped users hold/spend their own btc
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tolot | 7 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Fair enough, but it's not a matter of "nerds running nodes VS plebs spending bitcoin". Since we need bitcoin to be technically sound, we need infrastructure before everything else. Infrastructure means that Bitcoin needs to keep its properties through time, thus full nodes must enforce protocol rules.

If nobody enforces protocol rules, we are left with a new paypal technology, so what's the point?