Node that simply don ' t upload any block or transactions would be a nonconsensus rules change that would simply destroy BitcoinI just have no idea why you say this . I run several walletsnodes on blocks only mode , I do not think I am destroying anything . Your point was change that doesn ' t affect consensus rules are not important . No it wasn ' t . My point was they are not relevant to this discussion , or blocksize debate . Since you can run whatever non consensus code you like and we dont need everyone doing the same thing . Now you clearly do not agree with me , that we need to run the same code with respect to consensus code , therefore you do not see the difference . However , we still obviously both agree on the non protocol rules stuff , so we have nothing to argue about . Do you understand this ? Yes we did we talked about activation threshold . Orphaning block that vote against you are very relevant to activation threshold . Ok . Well could not find anything , so I call bullshit on that one . ok