Sorry, no. Nothing good is free and there are real resources needed to enforce Bitcoin.
Second layers will serve the vast majority of the world. If you don’t like the reality of block scarcity, I suggest you fork and try a different model.
Have you heard of a concept called the blockchain trilemma and do you run a node?
So, you really don't care about the financial freedom of others. Just as long as you get yours, fuck everyone else. Very elitist.
Listen, there’s two options.
1. We try to scale Bitcoin Layer 1 to 8 Billion people and compromise the network, destroying its decentralization and allowing it to become corrupted. Nobody ends up with sound money, censorship resistant transactions, or a beater digital asset.
2. We keep Bitcoin as it is and preserve its decentralized nature, with only a few hundred million transacting on Layer 1, but the economic benefits of sound money transfer through second layers to the entire world.
You can throw around words like “elitist” all you want. I’m a Pizza chef who makes a median salary. In no way is this a “I don’t think poor people should have Bitcoin” position.
There are just realities to the world that you need to accept. I’d love it if everyone had free health care, free food, ample cheap housing, and ample cheap energy too. But I cannot just mandate that be the case. There is an objective cost to good things which must be paid by someone. In the case of Bitcoin, this cost is paid by people like me, the plebs who run the nodes and transact with it.
Work to find a solution to your problem, donate money to poor people who want to transact, or piss off. I’ve done the first two - and I’d prefer you do the first two, but if you’re going to cry and call people elitists and say Bitcoin isn’t freedom money because it’s not free, then the third option works just as well.
There are only about 15 nodes on the network that are adding blocks to the chain. Only two of those nodes account for over 50% of the blocks added every day. Stop pretending that it's decentralized as it exists today. We can do better. Making it possible for 8 billion users to transact on layer 1 does not necessarily break the network security. We're can do better. Acting like the current implementation is perfect and no longer needs to be improved is foolish dogmatic tribalism. We can do better.
No, this is wrong. If only 15 nodes controlled Bitcoin, they could unilaterally come together to change the rules of the network. This has been proven to not be possible, because there are actually hundreds of thousands of nodes.
The people who thought “we can do better” because they didn’t understand the importance of block validation and decentralization went and forked off and created BCash. I suggest you use that if you’re unhappy by the realities imposed by the Bitcoin network.
You have been duped by miners who only care about fiat gains. The point was freedom money, and you've completely lost the plot.
Dude, just use BCash. Nobody is forcing you to use Bitcoin.
I made my case, if you don’t like my perspective you’re free to not share it. But you’re wrong, and ultimately whatever alternative network you use will always be inferior to Bitcoin.
I’m also not arguing we never improve the network. I run a lightning node and route transactions for others. There are tons of ways we can improve the network without increasing the blocksize. An idiot can increase the block size. It’s just a few lines of code, it’s not an impressive change.
Got any ideas or just thunberging?
