You also know that a block size increase is _only the first_ of a string of increase demands that will end up centralizing Bitcoin.
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That doesn't answer my question. Dev and miner centralisation are not at odds with each other at all.
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@ErikVoorhees implies above that ppl who defend decentralization doesn't care about dev centralization. -
I'm saying it is a valid concern (at least to me) but it is not as important as keeping mining & network topology decentralized.
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IMHO mining centralisation is hugely inflated as a problem, because people conflate ownership and control, and forget about incentives
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That's true. IMHO though there are 2nd order effects to mining centralization. The miners might not directly weaken the network. 1/
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But by making it prohibitively expensive for anyone to join this supposedly permissionless network, they indirectly do so. 2/
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Block propagation cost is nihil compared to current efficiency of scale. To worry about the former is suspicious and dishonest IMHO.
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It's not just propagation time. Its vulnerability to partitioning/routing/state-sanctioned attacks etc.
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