It's hyperbole. I have no idea who this guy is. His videos get 100 views and he's asking people to fork core, so he's a shitcoiner best I can tell.
If he's been studying bitcoin longer than me, then that's really sad.
Bitcoin should be feature complete.
Maybe it would be more productive to focus on the topic and the issues than the people. For example, Why do you think bitcoin is feature complete? I personally think it is inherently lacking in privacy at present. But perhaps the features bitcoin’s protocol already has are sufficient to enable full privacy on chain with appropriate workarounds? Or is privacy on chain not a desirable feature? I think it depends on what the use case is as to whether it is feature complete. I have no idea about what ctv offers, just putting out one example of where I wish bitcoin was slightly better.
You cannot have privacy in an open ledger, that's a completely different protocol. See Monero if that's what you want.
The problem with making it "better" is that the risk is a couple orders of magnitude more dangerous than any incremental improvement you might make.
The single biggest threat to bitcoin is that they will soft-fork in some new opcodes that bring with them unintended consequences. Think taproot, but worse.
That's all it will take is one opcode that someone figures out a way to exploit.
I agree, that holding a secret supply exploit in Monero is as powerful as the FED, controlling money supply.
Still USD is the preferred medium of exchange. Bitcoin is a hedge against both USD and Monero inflation and as such it has tremendous value. But both USD (fungible bydecree) and Monero are better monies (fungible through code).
Money:
1. store of value
2. medium of exchange
3. unit of account
There is no good money on Earth right now. I use bitcoin for #1 and eventually the others will follow.
You might ask why can't we just add ring signatures, stealth addresses, and confidential transactions to bitcoin... lots of reasons, but let's start with the fact that it makes the thing unauditable.
Tell me exactly how much monero exists... can you? Spin up your node and audit it. That's right, you can't.
There could be an inflation exploit and it's possible no one even knows about it.
Satoshi spoke on this subject. His opinion was that adding all this fancy shit was too risky. I agree with him. That's why we can't have privacy.
Privacy is one of those things, it's either baked into the protocol from day 1, or you will never get it.
Ultimately in the case of bitcoin, it was a tradeoff. No full privacy but full verifiability.
