Two fallacies. One post.
Ad Hominem: the financial status of node operators is irrelevant to protocol validity.
Appeal to Authority: miner signaling does not define Bitcoin consensus. Nodes do. Always have.
SegWit’s activation was forced by UASF node pressure — not miner generosity. Miners capitulated to nodes. That’s not fantasy. That’s documented history.
A cheap computer running a full node has the same vote as a data center. That’s not a bug. That’s the entire point.
