"If I wanted to destroy bitcoin I would just fund infinite developers who are very talented and tell them to make it better."

- Michael Saylor on op_return

I think he is not completely wrong, there is a risk. A risk of distraction, a risk of wanting to work on cool stuff because they are exciting, etc. those risks exist.

BUT, in my opinion, what Michael Saylor actually thinks is closer to this:

“If I wanted to destroy Bitcoin I would just scare people so that no one touches it and address the remaining issues and challenges that prevent Bitcoin to truly become P2P cash at the planet scale. It will make it easier for us to capture it and just hammer the NGU and digital gold narratives. Fuck their cypherpunk values and their hope of freedom.”

Who benefit the most from scaring people from ever touching Bitcoin again to try to improve it and fulfill its promise ? I think that considering Bitcoin final now is the biggest gift to governments or any powerful adversarial forces that would want to capture Bitcoin or prevent it from being adopted widely as money, and not just as digital gold.

Complacency also can kill Bitcoin. Job is not finished. The real fight has barely started.