It currently costs less to run a node per month than it does to do three transactions on the blockchain in the same period. Why would anyone care to run a node if the transactions aren't affordable.

If the blocksize was increased to double its current resource requirements, where i live in Australia, it would be impossible to run a node at any price.

And because the people who run nodes know this, they reject your proposals that reduce bitcoin network security.

You don't need to run a node unless you are a miner you should be using an SPV wallet. Chances are you already do.

The specifics of the difficulty adjustment algorithm are not critical to the original vision, but way to deflect (from the original scaling plan) to a different point.

>>If you don't run a node, or you can't run a node because of resource requirements, you're not a peer.

We had this discussion before:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15883911

Actually the white paper does not specify the details of the algorithm anyway.