Avoiding the costly to assay/validate flaw of monetary metals is why you want bitcoin nodes to be small and runnable by anyone. Bigger blocks increase the cost to validate and result in trusted 3rd parties.https://twitter.com/NickSzabo4/status/1144487521935429647 …
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The problem is that bitcoin core is already too close to the AWS side of that continuum. Not close enough to “able to be run by anyone” - ideally we’d have nodes on Apple watches and even easier to conceal devices.
I'd say current Bitcoin has the balance about right, but the guy you are talking to just clearly revealed himself as an enemy of Bitcoin security and should be blocked rather than talked to as if he's a peer in knowing or caring about the future of money.
