Yes I saw your post when you posted it earlier . Full nodes don ' t need perfect connections though , as long as they can get blocks reasonably fast . They aren ' t fighting milliseconds because their mining profit goes down if they get orphaned . If full nodes take a minute to get a block , that ' s pretty much fine . The argument against bigger blocks , according to many Core devs , and yourself , has always been about block propagation and validation between miners . You lot have already admitted that hard disk space and validation for nonmining full nodes has much more wiggle room . If you ' re telling me now that that ' s no longer the argument , then you ' ve basically come full circle and defeated all of your own arguments already . I ' m not sure what else to say .