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
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