I don’t agree with Erik on a many things, but an interesting discussion with some good technical information. Also worth noting that he’s involved in the industry and catering to certain points of view, but credit for submitting code. Personally, node runners are the last defense against the megacorps in the space taking over Bitcoin, and it’s crucial to defend regular people being able to run nodes economically to defend the network and themselves by verifying blocks and transaction, as well as issuing their own transactions securely. I’m running BIP-110 nodes and I even set my nodes to not relay SPAM transactions with OP_RETURN set to zero, and my bandwidth usage dropped significantly. And my nodes work fine in verifying blocks and managing transactions…