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 - Translated from Spanish by Argos -


following with the reflections about getting a layer one network accessible to a large part of the users...

A better approach to reducing #fees by increasing transactions entering a block would be acting on the difficulty adjustment directly.

If instead of a 1 MB block every 10 minutes, we have 1 in 5 minutes, we get the same result as the number of transactions but we gain at network speed and in decentralization, because by reducing the difficulty, more miners can enter to minar. 

Can it be assumed that with less difficulty, hashpower would remain constant but more distributed or even increase?,
 
would there be a minimum difficulty necessary for the network to be functional?.

The problem would remain the same, discover the necessary indicators to report to the network on duality transactions/fees appropriate at each time for ~ 50/70% of the modal media of #bitcoin users.