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Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report
>The general threat model for which we want to scale is: larger user=20
>base
>(not necessarily by increasing the blocksize - just increase the
>transactions per second using the best way from all points of view),
>more use cases for simple people who only do basic stuff, more
>popularity but all these without the possibility for some actor to
>control more than he should (like a government agency).
Larger user base won't necessarily protect against governments if we=20
still have chokepoints they can go after. Given that as a currency=20
Bitcoin currently represents a negligible portion of the world's=20
economy, even growing the user base by some small factor is at best a=20
token gesture in our fight against governmental threats. If governments=20
successfully take down critical pieces of our network infrastructure,=20
Bitcoin will fail and most people will continue doing business as usual=20
(using fiat currency), most of them never even noticing anything=20
noteworthy happened at all.
What we really need to grow is the number of nodes on the network that=20
participate in its basic infrastructure - namely: miners, validators,=20
etc...and the more centralized these activities become, the easier it=20
will be for governments to clamp down.
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