the practical way of scaling bitcoin is through an ecosystem of specialized service providers, handling everything from coin-pooling, routing, channel-balancing, fee-estimation, effective liquidity provisioning and pricing, and privacy. a mix between LSPs, Ark ASPs and Fedimints where the end-user can always validate and enforce off-chain cooperation by running the thin base layer at home

this ecosystem can be highly efficient and commoditized by being available to everyone over the web with not KYC requirements, in a similar fashion to how bitcoin mining is. this makes it competitive and consolidation-resistant through reducing the entry barriers to zero. if you have liquid capital you can utilize it to serve these use-cases with no opex but an internet connection from every territory in the world, as long as the internet is working