SchwurBler

But what would be the point? The miner wastes 500k on adding a bunch of, as you say, low value nodes to the network? What would they relay? Blocks with large op_returns? Assuming BIP110 nodes are 10% of the network and the miner has added 10% to the total of relay nodes, the added nodes are basically doing what 90% of nodes were doing before. The added nodes would be even more pointless than the BIP110 nodes. I would really like to understand your angle here and if this could be a threat to Bitcoin in some way.

What would the architecture of this even look like? 10k full nodes, so 10PB of HDDs? Or all pruned nodes? Maybe 10k front ends + one full or pruned backend? Are the 10k IPs individual VMs? Is faking 10k nodes actually as trivial and cheap to pull of as you say?

This is interesting and depressing. I never see any arguments from you guys. Just namecalling and appeals to authority. (More namecalling this time) I would expect there to be some attempts at debate to properly disprove the other side. Even just copy/paste if you have anything good. Why have you given up?