bitman on Nostr: If people stop running nodes, the 21 million cap becomes irrelevant because the only ...
If people stop running nodes, the 21 million cap becomes irrelevant because the only ones that will enforce that are the miners, and miners are not always aligned on what is best for Bitcoin. That’s why the sats vs bits debate is dumb and only serves as distraction to the much more important debate: the OP_RETURN one.
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