I started to see the word "ossification" on Twitter feeds about two to three months ago, and I only grasped the atmosphere that I could guess without understanding what it was. I've asked some of them about this but I don't think there was any Korean Bitcoiner who knew it or seemed interested. And the video of the quote is a presentation of Lopp's "Bitcoin Protocol Ossification."
The video articulates my opinion in a very short time on the issues of Bitcoin's scale, the Layer 2 issue, and the underlying purpose that I've been struggling with and confusing over the past two or three months.
Lopp doesn't see Bitcoin networks as immutable networks with already-set objectives, but looks at it as a changeable and scalable network that can accommodate diverse needs(including problems) in the future. Here, he frames the former as folks(tribalist maxi), and the latter as a future-oriented activity led by developers. Cleverly, the choice of words reveals this confrontation very well. Goal vs Phenomenon.
To reach a conclusion, Lopp unravels the history of e-mail from a consequential perspective of protocol ossification and control of big tech. And then, it maximizes the problem by substituting it into the Bitcoin network.
So, what's the solution? Protocol scale and active development of Layer 2. And then that would be a narrative modification to make it possible. Bitcoin narratives will no longer be (only)money. Now Bitcoin has to change to become a huge ecosystem. It's time for a lot of development terms of Shitcoin that have plagued Bitcoin over the past few years to come into Bitcoin. Has Antonopoulos foreseen long ago? All altcoins will eventually be Bitcoin's beta test. It's as if it's about time for that transition.
Lopp ends with a rally saying, "Developers, wake up!"(I translate it.) I can feel a strong will in his message. I think that the period of flooding of numerous altcoins after Block Size War is ending. And inevitably, Bitcoin Maximalists' calling to protect the network at that time is also being fulfilled. If this is a turning point into a new era, what is the bitcoin maximalism in that era needs. Or should bitcoin maximalism be an immutable idea for the fundamental purpose of "fixing money and becoming true money" at any time?
In fact, when Tether comes up on Bitcoin Layer 2 Taproot Assets in the near future, and all sorts of chains come up to create a ton of services, can I still stubbornly deny them because they are not for real purpose? So far, I think it's right that I am a tribalism maxi who wants Bitcoin to be ossificated. But if an era of Bitcoin exists, and now it's a turning point, I'll have to seriously think about what I'm going to do.