and "them" is not a single entity or even small number of entities. miners compete for block rewards and every transaction with a fee contributes to the profit - whatever malicious miners choose to leave out will be included by non-malicious miners making them more profitable.

calling miners middlemen when they would only have actual control over which transactions appear on the chain if majority of miners colluded (destroying the value proposition of bitcoin in the process) is very disingenuous.

> talk about inflation and QE as theft from their pockets. The block reward is a fee extracted from the ecosystem in the same way.

i don't even... QE and other fiscal measures are short term decisions made by bunch of powerful humans behind closed doors. Bitcoin emission schedule was decided ten years ago and has virtually zero chance of being changed without destroying the project and it's value. you must be trolling right now if you say you don't see the difference.

as for why is there bitcoin emission schedule at all - because that's probably the most fair process of distributing bitcoin.

> So yeah, you did, you said it was monetary value expressed as pure energy, which is meaningless

either you start reading and quoting me correctly or this discussion is over, i'm done with your manipulative tactics.