As a holder of crypto, you are both a customer and an owner.
You pay a fee for each transaction you send, just like any other service. b
However, your holdings increase in value the more other people use the same chain because the value of the entire ecosystem needs to scale proportionally to the value people are attempting to transact across it.
Financial systems, like social networks, and most businesses coming out of SV rely on network effects for much of their value.
USD has been the default option for the world, and enforced through violence when people attempt to create their own networks of trade.
The positive sum value that cryptocurrency is attempting to create is the ability to send anyone in the world any amount of value (money or otherwise) not subject to government permission, or sabotage (ie money printing)
It's like any one being able to suggest a Federal Reserve policy, and the vote being handled by the people, not representatives or a committee.
You would essentially "vote" with which fork you were choosing to acknowledge with your own node, should you be running one.
Also I'm fairly certain a majority of hashpower, not just users would need to be on board with the change.
You could argue that as the primary beneficiaries of such a change (increase cap => increased distribution to miners) they would be for it, but I think most rational actors see the catch 22 of trying to profit by removing one of the core attributes that makes bitcoin valuable (it's scarcity)
You pay a fee for each transaction you send, just like any other service. b
However, your holdings increase in value the more other people use the same chain because the value of the entire ecosystem needs to scale proportionally to the value people are attempting to transact across it.
Financial systems, like social networks, and most businesses coming out of SV rely on network effects for much of their value.
USD has been the default option for the world, and enforced through violence when people attempt to create their own networks of trade.
The positive sum value that cryptocurrency is attempting to create is the ability to send anyone in the world any amount of value (money or otherwise) not subject to government permission, or sabotage (ie money printing)
It's like any one being able to suggest a Federal Reserve policy, and the vote being handled by the people, not representatives or a committee.
It is revolutionarily democratic.