No, you are just taking the word "efficient" and using it for the word "speed". Not only that applying it into mining and everything else. We are talking about running a bitcoin node being a bitcoin user. If the bitcoin node runs more efficient it becomes easier to run, and should require less space. Bitcoin is decentralized because running a bitcoin node is easier than running an Ethereum node. I'm able to run a bitcoin node on my phone because its efficient. I don't need a huge hard drive and an expensive machine, because its efficient to run bitcoin. We have the timechain to prevent double spending, it solves that issue. But it brings another issue, the chain has to be synced between nodes to agree on the history. Mining is a process that slows down the block creation, (and also produces more bitcoin as side effect). Which keeps running a bitcoin node/client efficient and lightweight. Which keeps bitcoin is decentralized, meaning you can verify everything locally. Bitcoin is setup to be easy to run and be efficient, that's why you can run it. Because its easy/optimized/efficient. Keeping the network of nodes decentralized. You can't debunk any of these, they are just facts. "Luke controls everything you do. It is all his code. 100%. No input from anyone. He wants to control it all. He is a cult leader. " This sentence makes no logical sense, pure ragebait. Everybody runs their own node, nobody controls anything. Luke didn't write it all, he didn't even write it, there are multiple contributors. Even IF that was true (which isn't), I can say the same thing for Core Organization Entity. Bitcoin Core controls all of the bitcoin core's code. It's one entity doing what ever it wants. It's not decentralized, its a parliament/democracy. Difference is, in a democracy only one outcome becomes real yes or no, but in a decentralized system yes and no can live in parallel and compete in the free market. So having more impls is decentralization, not having more people in one entity. --- bitcoin is all about efficiency, and optimizing for monetary use case and decentralization. every little detail about bitcoin decided to optimize for these. efficiency was a big part of why taproot is created. if you were sleeping on the wheel during segwit v1, didnt even notice taproot. why do you care so much about a soft fork that is just restoring what was the default before? it changes nothing, it just restores what was the default before. the change already happened with taproot, did you argue with people like this back then? and now you are arguing with people trying to fix what was broken. if you think about it a little, this soft fork doesn't change bitcoin, just restores the previous defaults. fixing taproot. and simple, and temporary just in case. expires after 1 year. so we dont have to do hard fork if we wanna tweak it a little. its a very humble and basic soft fork. then ask yourself, who would be against this? because some influencers told you to? maybe enter to the rabbit hole from somewhere:

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