Rephrase, bitcoin success is it's ability the break the rules.
But I argue even much more then that, it is a protocol and the ability to innovate over protocols far exceeds service providing.
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Did you zap yourself?
What level of automation is this?
yes lol, the automation is fat fingers on the zap button
Nice, I get what you mean, but I’m using ‘illegality’ differently. I don’t mean breaking rules inside a system, I mean Bitcoin not needing the system in the first place. Protocols (like Angor, Lightning, Cashu, etc.) can innovate ‘around’ Bitcoin, but Bitcoin itself doesn’t get built on or extended (I’m trying to be careful with words, because I think this is a critical discrepancy. Right, these protocols anchor to Bitcoin’s settlement finality, as far as I understand). Its strength is that it stays fixed, neutral, and outside any rule-set.
Bitcoin’s success isn’t rule-breaking, Rather it’s in being entirely ungoverned and unchangeable. Everything else adapts to it, not the other way around.