I will chuckle too, but I like the fact that their retarded hearts are in the right place. Nevertheless, those with all the feels need to learn how to understand issues that are fundamentally not about feelings. What can’t be understood in depth by some can be understood superficially and can be reasoned about by analogy and intuition with some work. Bitcoin has no dedicated technical education staff, ready and waiting to bring normies up to speed on technical issues…and maybe that’s worth devoting some effort towards…some sort of “help me reason through this” logic game or something.

I know you have explained those things. Which is why I asked about the affirmative case for what benefit larger allocations of arbitrary data provide me, a regular pleb with a node on a btc standard. That’s the only answer I want. Cause that’s the essence. That’s the principle. I don’t give a fuck about personalities. It doesn’t matter how shiny the code is polished if the principles underpinning it aren’t aligned with my interest. as a person who continually steelmans many opposing sides, the complete lack of direct answers for why arbitrary data allowance should be increased is scary. I have asked and searched far and wide, and best affirmative answer I have gotten is “it will give u a faster more accurate estimation of fees.” if the only significant benefit is “it lets me do cool shit on top of bitcoin” then that’s that. for as much as you hate luke, the things you advocate for are sending a lot of people his way.

The point of the arbitrary data debate is that you can't stop it, you can only incentivize less worse usage of it. This is simple information theory; if you don't believe me or don't get it, you're doomed to spin your wheels fighting ghosts.

Your friend Matt Kratter made a pretty good rebuttal of your “explanation”. As far as I know you never responded with anything other than ad hominems.