All I’m saying is that it’s currently a social problem, not a technical one. Even if $2.37 (current low priority fee) is a days wages somewhere, if you value self custodial Bitcoin then you will pay to have it. When fees are in the hundreds and 100 million people are trying to use base layer Bitcoin, then my perspective would change.

The hard reality is that most people don’t have either the technical skills + confidence in technology or the desire to be completely free. No matter where you are in the world, the majority of people are more comfortable holding some type of central bank note or digital bank account than they are holding private keys.

If you preemptively try to force Bitcoin to be useable for 8B people in a completely sovereign way, you would destroy it faster than people would adopt it. A lot of these arguments center around block size - if we went to 8MB right now for instance, you wouldn’t “scale freedom money”, you would have empty blocks or even worse, blocks full of inscriptions and spam.

I understand the cypherpunk dream and I’d love for it to stay accessible for everybody, but for many, it’s as simple as trust based economic prosperity being better than trust based economic poverty.

People demanding sound money with a fixed cap and people demanding sovereign money nobody can control are two different groups, and the first one will likely always be larger.