I consider it highly likely that he thinks he ' s doing the right thing . But even moreso he thinks he is correct . Yet his comparison is still completely off base . And he knows perfectly well that especially for channels it is of vital importance that a transaction settles . Furthermore , if he was correct you would see a market developing for slow confirming transactions . Yet this isn ' t what we see . Average blocksize wouldn ' t get stuck at 700 KB if Bitcoin is a settlement system . The thing is , with the same storagenetwork requirements you can have faster confirmations . <| sep |> There ' a much much more . the problem is there ' s always much much more if you ' re willing to read into everything . it ' s like the big problem with dumb numerology where every adds up to 42 ! so it ' s a conspiracy ! when actuality if you ' re just spinning your gears and addingsubtractingdividing stuff into stuff then you get the result you want .