Have you tried going mad without power ? It ' s boring ! Nobody listens to you . <| sep |> There are two kinds of artificial constraints on Bitcoin internal , and external . An artificial internal constraint would be like the block size limit , which all users are or should be at least vaguely aware of before they start using Bitcoin . When people start using Bitcoin , they are essentially opting in to these artificial constraints the same way people optin to the terms of service or community guidelines when they create an account online . Users are not coerced into agreeing to these artificial constraints , it ' s takeitorleaveit . Thus users have freedom of choice in this matter . An artificial external constraint would be like the Great Firewall of China , which affects all Bitcoin users whether you live in China or not , and furthermore is not even a voluntary constraint on people in China but instead forced on them by their government . These kinds of constraints do inhibit freedom , because people never had the freedom to choose to opt in to these constraints in the first place . The artificial constraint you ' re referring to , the block size limit , is an internal constraint that was freely accepted by everyone who has money on chain today . These users freely accepted the possibility that one day , demand for block space might be greater than supply and that the fee to move their money out of their address might be more expensive than the fee they paid to move the money into the address . Perhaps the market will move in their favor , and miners and the economic majority will come to an agreement about how to increase the available block space , and fees will go down . Perhaps not . This is the deal that they freely signed up for when they put their money on the blockchain . Freedom doesn ' t mean I get to do whatever I want , it means I get to do whatever I want within the confines of voluntary agreements I have made with the people around me . Bitcoin is one of the purest expressions of such freedom , and should not be held responsible for the choices that people make about what to do with their money .