I learned how important the block size is to the world, through experience. At the very peak in 2017, I paid over 40$ in transaction fees on one transaction. I have been a Bitcoin user for a long time, when I heard about it I instantly knew that it would one day become one of the most important things in the entire world. I knew that it was a type of technology that was built and created by people who were serving the common good by eliminating the need for someone else to account for your money. But best of all, it was open source and there was an open, weirdly-welcoming community discussing it online.
It was nearly instant, Satoshi Dice was super impressive to me, and the tx fee was practically optional. I originally thought it was like "tip your waiter" or something, I didn't really like it.
But I also really didn't like my authority figures' answers the age-old question, "Who do you trust with your money?" As soon as I realized that someone did made a Bitcoin I started answering that with "Math" because that makes the most sense folks.
But alas, this was 2013 and I was 13 years old! I had no money. I'd had some trouble following the rules in the past, so even when I tried to explain to my dad, as best I could, he just didn't take me seriously at all. I had lost pretty much all credibility by then for some other shit, so I couldn't blame him or his paranoia of the 8th wonder of the world. I remember being a 13 y/o showing my brother how the transactions are public and I pointed to a random one worth hundreds of millions of dollars and said "That one is actually the U.S. government. They use Bitcoin because it's cheaper way cheaper than banks" He was like "sick" but he didn't really know what that meant about how the world was going to change.
Listen folks, I am not a person who speaks out over much in life, much of banter is settled fact or bears little consequence, but Bitcoin Cash is Bitcoin. Thank Satoshi for the hard-fork protocol, and thank the fact that most of the good devs didn't sell all their coins when Overstock announced. The people who really understood what Bitcoin means for the betterment of all mankind, like I somewhat did at 13, knew that they would become important one day because the technology has revolutionary implications for the protection of the common individual from theft in all forms. But the technology is only sought after if it works for the people wanting to use it, and Bitcoin core actively develops ways to suppress that. Thats why bitcoin cash must be preserved.
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