Yeah I don't like throwing that card around tbh. It's authoritative and a +1 to reasons-to-burn. Many people are on SN on burner nyms though, so we don't always know who we talk to. But that's ok.

I think that that's another point of misunderstanding tho: I read that post as OP being on the same side of that discussion as we're agreeing to be on right now; actually most of the stackers are, if I look carefully at the responses. SN is lower on NgU fuckbois than any other Bitcoin discussion platform I've hung out on, which is a massive +.

Well yeah - they can issue their shitstonks all on their own. The plebs and no-coiners are who need support: because if the bitcoin bubble pops the former are effed, and if the fiat bubble pops the latter are effed. I'm currently thinking these would happen in reverse order: fiat first, or at the very least housing first. There's a lot of potential trouble ahead.

As for the empty blocks; I think it's solvable, but idk how it will play out. It doesn't really matter if a block is half full or full because half is ordinals; both are not sustainable long term. But who is going to invest in developing L1 apps if fees can go insane again with Casey 2.0 doing astrology with block numbers? This is a problem that I don't have an answer to. Maybe we do need to work a bit on b2b solutions per Justin - I worked with a team on that in '14/'15 but it was way too early. Maybe there's something there to revive and build upon - I'll check that out.