and what exactly are those protocol updates that you would like that are now somehow being stalled?
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Great Script Restoration would be a good start to bring the cypherpunk builders back to Bitcoin.
Then MWEB for extra scaling and privacy.
BIP300 too, though this one is likely to happen if Paul convinces a majority of miners to deploy it. Won’t pursue the BIP process anymore.
Let the devs do the deving, stop all this purity test nonsense which doesn’t even pay the miners to compensate for the diminishing subsidy.
I want things like BIP300 to happen too but I'm too pessimistic to let myself believe it will ever happen. they are too dysfunctional to do anything like that ever again and there are too many bad actors poised to do social engineering attacks against any more serious innovation. bitcoin can only scale via custodians now. I hope it changes but I am done holding my breath.
Sounds like you are ready to make the move to Monero.