On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Jameson Lopp via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Stated differently, if the cost or contention of using the network rises > to the point of excluding the average user from making transactions, then > they probably aren't going to care that they can run a node at trivial cost. That's an interesting claim; so suppose you're living in a future where transactions are summarizing millions or billions of other daily transactions, possibly with merkle hashes. You think that because a user can't individually broadcast his own personal transaction, that the user would not be interested in verifying the presence of a summarizing transaction in the blockchain? I'm just curious if you could elaborate on this effect. Why would I need to see my individual transactions on the network, but not see aggregate transactions that include my own? - Bryan http://heybryan.org/ 1 512 203 0507