Is it time to increase the blocksize cap?

Never.

A batch open of 50 channels takes ~2k vbytes

A day has 144k vbytes

Thus we could open 3M channels a day, or 1BN channels per year

Nodes willing to wait days for a channel batch may get them nearly free as they’re subsidized by larger and high time preference ones

Undoubtedly closures will cost more than opens, but that’s also optimal from an incentives perspective

are a handful of developers

Seems you have no idea how any of this works, good luck changing the network with a handful of developers

Bitcoin as a tool for human rights

Sound money is a human right, everything else is downstream of that.

a $5 per week family

Bitcoin being better money doesn’t help people that don’t have money, it does however help them earn it permissionlessly.

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