I run my own nodes and use their functionality everyday.

Is it a perfect experience? No, but that's why we build on it.

A solution to challenges imposed on the finality layer needn't be perfect from the get-go.

I've heard no one suggest Lightning to be the only scaling solution either, but you act like that's fact.

Truth of the matter though, is that the foundation is sound. That's where you want to build the most regardless of the challenge based on the foundation's constraints, because no other project will achieve what it has achieved - It was a happy accident.

The state very much has a problem with BTC, it just can't do anything about that and we've seen this across the years. When a move is futile against your opponent, you don't expend the energy - You find other ways to attack.

Either way, stick to your monero, because Time will tell.

The moment one of us swaps Bitcoin for monero or vice-versa, we'll know what that means.