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Sunday Survey:  Who hurts Bitcoin adoption the most?

jimmysong

> maximalists are the reason why the block size is so small and the fees are so high

There you have it. Count uninformed shitcoiners too. Go ahead and check the fees. Since SegWit, batching and LN took properly over, the on-chain fees are at minimum. 

From the [recent block](https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/transaction/77e22b864d488d5f16658544b146ee351eca30cec31110e6545862f5c17ea4f4):
> Amount transacted
0.32105202BTC
6,989.94USD
>
>**Transaction fee
0.00000146BTC**
**0.03USD**

We're fighting for small blocks because the most important thing is keeping Bitcoin as decentralised as possible - the smaller blocks, the less disk space, less CPU & RAM intensive, less bandwidth needed for a node to stay online. 

Have you seen the node count of the large block forks? The Gigamegs one has about 20 because only large companies can afford to run one. Large blocks are the way if you don't care about decentralisation at all.

No matter if you've been around or not, read or listen The Blocksize War, please. You might be surprised about many small details that happened on both sides of the conflict. 