It is not about the amount of nodes out there . It is about the potential , the possibility for everybody on the planet to run their own node if they so desire in order to be able to verify the truth for themselves without having to ask anyone . The only node that matters is your own . Obviously any step that results in more resources needed for that is a step in the wrong direction . Ideally albeit impossible the blocksize would be zero or even negative . <| sep |> The jokes write themselves . <| sep |> Lol , no . Just no . Please come up with some real arguments . You can ' t just jump to the buzzwords because you don ' t agree with it . <| sep |> I mean , wouldn ' t the whole these documents are emails from a hacked account thing qualify under the fruit from the poisonous tree , making them inadmissible to begin with ?