bitcoin is completely overreliant on centralized lightning companies that obey the government, and lightning will never scale to the world in any other way. these companies absolutely do have control over the money and its key properties.

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Let them try to change the 21m hard cap or restrict the ability for us to run nodes and audit supply/transact without having to rely on a third party

Until that actually happens nobody controls the money and you can continue to larp that bitcoin is failed and captured

>transact without having to rely on a third party

this is already restricted in the protocol because "muh decentralization" and every method of getting around it makes centralized lightning companies irrelevant, so they all scream "ossify" and nothing gets done. YOU can do it today because most people just use a centralized third party. if most people try to do it, it becomes unaffordable. this is completely on purpose

Lighting represents less than 1/4000th of the Bitcoin network. Lmao. Such over reliance.

Goatmeal, an npub dedicated to hating Bitcoin and its user base. Very sane and normal 😂