Even if BTC didn’t “scale” I believe it would be useful as a savings tech for the 99% & the 1%
I am not in the 1% & use it primarily for that feature (my guess you are as well?)
Saying that its network effect with the layers built atop improve the capital growth potential
So I am absolutely not complaining
My fear is bitcoin L1 fees keep on rising due to organic increasing adoption and the poor plebs are priced out of using bitcoin. I want to see plebs with no life savings able to adopt bitcoin and have super cheap fees as possible to use as money.
Yes you can save and move to cold storage. But it may cost people $hundreds or even $thousands worth of bitcoin to move their btc if they wished to do so. This is all based on the assumption blockspace demand continues to increase exponentially forcing fees to keep rising.
A very reasonable concern no doubt
What’s the point of a store of value that costs more to move than store value over time?
None
But we’re not there yet. Not even close.
I am not concerned
Why?
BTC is now the best way to store value across space & time
Use any traditional asset (gold / equities / bonds etc)
& you won’t retain as much purchasing power as with BTC
Whilst all those tradfi assets have a “friction cost” ie liquidity cost
BTC even with high fees as a %age is still order of magnitude better
So your avatar with no savings, is still better off buying a little BTC
Then HODL as long as possible vs the status quo
Where am I wrong?
Again. Don’t get me wrong. I welcome all scaling tech built atop BTC
For precisely the use case you mention & more
I think you will be surprised how fast exponential growth works.
It can easily within two years under the right conditions imo.
But most likely will take several years to rise to insane levels.
Blockspace is scarce. But people want the security of L1.
To multmillionaire paying $500 to securely store their bitcoin is nothing. But to 90% of the world they are price out.
Anyways, the future may play out differently. Just going from my experience and observations.
Time will tell! Again thanks so much for sharing
But I agree mostly with what you’re saying.
