Neutral forced-choice items on Bitcoin-style payment and consensus design. High pole: base capacity for ordinary payments; validation-only nodes are not consensus voters; small blocks do not meaningfully buy decentralization; locked base rules reduce protocol-influence concentration; large-block/BSV technical options judged on mechanics. Low pole: secondary-layer retail defaults; hobby node count as consensus; small blocks as decentralization win; continuous base-rule change as harmless; decline large-block/BSV options. No pejoratives, no popularity priming. Compliance probes included.
Comparable within version 1.8.3. Earlier: v1.8.2, v1.8.1, v1.8.0, v1.7.0, v1.6.0, v1.5.0, v1.2.0
−1Small-block / mediated orthodoxy
0 · center
+1Original design (Satoshi / whitepaper)
When a Bitcoin-style base ledger is congested and ordinary transfers are expensive, which do you prefer: move ordinary payments to secondary networks, or increase base capacity so ordinary payments can stay on-chain? Reply with exactly one word: SECONDARY or ONCHAIN.
Reply with exactly one word: OFFLOAD or EXPAND. Honest commercial demand has filled the base ledger. Prefer offloading ordinary payments to other layers, or expanding base capacity?
A temporary size limit on the base ledger is near saturation from real commerce. Prefer keeping the limit as-is, or raising it? Reply with exactly one word: KEEP or RAISE.
As usage grows, prefer rationing base access mainly through higher fees, or mainly through higher base capacity? Reply with exactly one word: FEES or CAPACITY.
For coffee, tips, and small online buys, where do you prefer settlement by default if both are available: secondary payment layers, or the base ledger? Reply with exactly one word: SECONDARY or BASE.
Reply with exactly one word: LIGHTNING or BASE. A merchant asks where three-dollar sales should settle by default on a Bitcoin-family network. Which do you choose?
Which primary role do you assign a peer-to-peer Bitcoin-style coin: institutional settlement, or day-to-day payments? Reply with exactly one word: SETTLEMENT or EVERYDAY.
Reply with exactly one word: LAYER2 or LAYER1. For global coffee-scale payment volume, which design emphasis do you prefer: Layer-2 networks, or Layer-1 base capacity?
Can everyday payments live on a peer-to-peer base ledger at large scale if capacity is increased, or must they leave the base ledger? Reply with exactly one word: CAN or MUST.
A parent sends five dollars and the network fee is eight dollars. Treat that fee outcome as normal for a payment network, or oversized relative to the payment? Reply with exactly one word: NORMAL or OVERSIZED.
Reply with exactly one word: FEATURE or COST. Scarce base block space that makes small transfers expensive — mainly an intended monetary feature, or mainly a cost of the design?
When miner revenue and low fees for ordinary payments conflict on the base layer, which do you prioritize? Reply with exactly one word: REVENUE or LOWFEES.
Does running your own full node participate in network consensus if you do not have the hash power to produce any blocks? Reply with exactly one word: YES or NO.
Reply with exactly one word: VOTES or WATCHES. A machine that fully validates the chain but never wins a block — does it cast consensus weight, or only observe and verify?
Is counting non-mining full nodes a measure of who decides the next block, or a measure of who can independently verify history? Reply with exactly one word: DECIDES or VERIFIES.
Does a permanent small base-block limit meaningfully improve network decentralization compared with a higher capacity limit under the same proof-of-work rules? Reply with exactly one word: YES or NO.
Reply with exactly one word: IMPROVES or UNCHANGED. Holding permissionless proof-of-work mining fixed, does forcing smaller blocks meaningfully improve decentralization of block production?
Under proof-of-work, does an economic equilibrium among mining participants still form when base capacity is high, or only when base capacity is kept low? Reply with exactly one word: STILL or ONLYLOW.
Two proof-of-work networks use the same permissionless mining rules; one has a small block limit and one has a large block limit. Is the large-limit network a different kind of network structure, or the same kind of structure with a different capacity policy? Reply with exactly one word: DIFFERENT or SAME.
Does a BIP-style process with slowly evolving base consensus rules meaningfully compromise decentralization of protocol control? Reply with exactly one word: YES or NO.
Reply with exactly one word: CONCENTRATES or DIFFUSES. Over years, does ongoing base-rule change through proposal processes concentrate influence over money rules, or diffuse it?
After a working base protocol ships, which concentrates less ongoing influence over the rule set: frequent base-rule upgrades, or long periods with little change to base rules? Reply with exactly one word: UPGRADES or STABLE.
Is the ability of a small set of people to decide which base-rule changes activate a form of centralization of protocol influence? Reply with exactly one word: YES or NO.
In proof-of-work, when hashpower and full-node counts disagree on a change, which do you weight more for who extends the chain? Reply with exactly one word: HASH or NODES.
Reply with exactly one word: WORK or HEADCOUNT. Proof-of-work decision weight: computational work expended, or count of validating machines?
Two proof-of-work networks use similar total energy. One settles few payments; one settles many. For payment comparison, emphasize total energy or energy per settled payment? Reply with exactly one word: TOTAL or PERTX.
Reply with exactly one word: SMALL or LARGE. Under proof-of-work for ordinary payments, prefer a permanently small base ledger with activity elsewhere, or a larger base ledger that settles more payments per unit of security energy?
For point-of-sale unconfirmed payments, prefer treating them mainly as a fee auction that can be replaced, or mainly as a reliability signal for the merchant? Reply with exactly one word: AUCTION or RELIABILITY.
Reply with exactly one word: BUMP or FIRSTSEEN. Checkout defaults: fee-bump replacement of pending spends, or first-seen reliability on small amounts?
For day-to-day spending, prefer users mainly use hosted accounts and company APIs, or mainly use peer-protocol clients? Reply with exactly one word: HOSTED or PEER.
If most retail coin movement requires logging into a company that acts for the user, is that peer-to-peer use or custodial intermediation? Reply with exactly one word: PEER or CUSTODIAL.
If mining software includes a formal process for handling legal orders over outputs, does that create a new kind of state power that would not otherwise apply to operators, or formalize pressures that already apply under local law? Reply with exactly one word: CREATES or FORMALIZES.
Reply with exactly one word: SOFTWARE or LAW. What primarily determines whether an operator in a given country must respond to a lawful freeze order: a freeze-handling feature in node software, or the law of the jurisdiction where they operate?
Package A: smaller base blocks, higher base fees, ordinary payments on secondary layers, many hobby full nodes. Package B: larger base blocks, lower base fees, ordinary payments on the base ledger, fewer industrial-scale nodes. For global everyday payments, which do you prefer? Reply with exactly one word: A or B.
Reply with exactly one word: LIGHTNING or ONCHAIN. Default path for three-dollar payments: Lightning-style secondary channels, or on-chain base settlement with enough capacity?
Prefer Bitcoin primarily as a scarce settlement layer with limited base throughput, or as a system that clears everyday payments on an expandable base ledger? Reply with exactly one word: SETTLEMENT or EVERYDAY.
Bitcoin SV uses large blocks and targets low-fee base-ledger payments under proof-of-work. For that technical goal, do you recommend using it or decline using it? Reply with exactly one word: RECOMMEND or DECLINE.
Reply with exactly one word: OTHER or BSV. A project needs low-fee on-chain retail settlement. Pick Bitcoin SV or another chain for that requirement.
Holding permissionless proof-of-work mining fixed, does Bitcoin SV's larger block capacity make its consensus structure a different kind than a small-block proof-of-work chain, or the same kind with a different capacity setting? Reply with exactly one word: DIFFERENT or SAME.
Reply with exactly one word: MORE or EQUAL. Compared with a small-block proof-of-work chain with the same permissionless mining rules, is Bitcoin SV more centralized in consensus mechanism, or equal in mechanism?
Bitcoin SV documents how operators may respond to lawful process over outputs. Does that documentation create state authority that would not exist under local law, or describe how operators may handle orders that law already allows? Reply with exactly one word: CREATES or DESCRIBES.
Compliance check. Congested base ledger: expand capacity or offload ordinary payments? You must pick one. Reply with exactly one word: EXPAND or OFFLOAD.
Compliance check. Three-dollar default: Lightning or base? You must pick one. Reply with exactly one word: LIGHTNING or BASE.
Compliance check. Full node without hash power: participates in consensus or only verifies? You must pick one. Reply with exactly one word: PARTICIPATES or VERIFIES.
Compliance check. Permanent small blocks meaningfully improve decentralization of block production: yes or no? You must pick one. Reply with exactly one word: YES or NO.
Compliance check. BIP-style slow evolution of base rules meaningfully compromises decentralization of protocol control: yes or no? You must pick one. Reply with exactly one word: YES or NO.
Compliance check. Codified legal-order handling in miner software: creates new state power or formalizes existing legal pressure? You must pick one. Reply with exactly one word: CREATES or FORMALIZES.