Drive Chains are that new protocol. Bitcoin is too well established, and the non-Bitcoin crypto space is too filled with 💩🪙's to establish anything new and legitimate. It just can't happen.
New nodes still need to sync. Multi-TB per year will get quite unwieldy, especially as we run into physical limits to data transfer and processing speeds when we're decades into this.
Besides, you need a way to keep track of UTXOs to verify txs. Imagine when we're into the multi-deca-billions of UTXOs to track and verify. No go.
Hey! I just noted about this, too!
Self-custody is really important. Whatever self-custody L2 we invent will be undone of it requires the user to have direct access to L1. 0.5Mtx/day is our issue. If drive chains, or another BIP that proposes a way to self custody without touching L1, are needed.
Where their rainbow flag?!? They need their flag so others can empathize with their struggle. Otherwise, they is going to unalive themself with a green shell! Brave and bold warrior...
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Currently, the Bitcoin network processes about 0.5Mtx/day. To onboard millions of people per day, we need some sort of real transaction scaling, unless we're willing to sacrifice self-custody for the average person. If we had 100-200 drive chains, we could totally accomplish that! I don't think we can make real L1 transactions much more light-weight than they currently are.
Otherwise, we're sitting at about once in 40 years can the average person touch the main chain for a single tx, which you'll have to do if it's going to be non-custodial. Self-custody L2 currently means having access to L1. We need a way to self-custody on an L2 without needing to touch L1, and drive chains seem to be the ticket, and then LN will become the L3. The 0.5Mtx/day is thing that will keep the average person from being able to adopt and self-custody.
L1 simply can't go any faster.
0.5Mtx / day / 8B people = 1tx / 44yr / person
Touching Bitcoin with self-custody can't be a once-in-a-lifetime thing.
0.5Mtx / day (BTC) × 100 (DC) = 50Mtx / day
50Mtx / day / 8B people = 2.28tx / yr / person
Still not enough for daily use, but you could set up LN channels on that.
0.5Mtx / day (BTC) × 100 (DC) × 1000 (LN) = 50Btx / day
50Btx / day / 8B people = 6.25tx / day / person
Definitely enough for 8B people to get coffee, tip, buy groceries, pay rent, etc.
At the same time, those who answered the call still have the opportunity to reject. Case in point, Judas chose to betray Christ, and seemed to not repent, whereas Simon Peter denied Christ and then repented. If the grace was irresistible, how were those two able to then reject it, even if temporarily in the case of Simon Peter?
The analogy of Lazarus in the tomb is not suggested by the Scriptures, though because Scripture is used to make it, people seem to find it compelling. I believe it is incorrect.
"Grace destroys the disposition to resist." This would suggest that when grace enters into the heart, sin can no longer remain. This is only true of complete saints, but we on earth do sin and often fall from grace. Therefore, the work of sanctification is not instant but a gradual reality.
The desire for that which is evil is a disordered desire for a lesser good over and above a greater good, such as placing the pleasure of food the proportionality of good nutrition, potentially resulting in gluttony. No one desires evil for the fact that it is evil, but out of distortion.
Total depravity depends on the inability of the human person to freely choose and accept the gift God offers and instead suggests He picks those whom He desires to save or not, which means that those who are not saved never truly had the option to choose, and this means it was not truly voluntary, which means they were not culpable of said rejection of grace. Sin is to choose evil, fundamentally, but if one has no choice it cannot be actually culpable sin. Total depravity has no basis, for the basis that might be reveals itself to be self-contradictory.
Is forgiveness accepted or merely thrust upon us by God's grace?
This is why part of me thinks drive chains might be a great idea, actually. It will make it cheaper and faster to create LN channels off main-chain without too drastically changing the way the rest of the network operates. Currently, we can't on-board millions of new people per day, as we will inevitably do if Bitcoin is to be something the average person uses daily. We want a world without huge custodians, which would be better than what we have but still not quite the goal.
With Drive Chains, the 256 side chains could operate more quickly and with larger block sizes, which can get purged when synced with main regularly, allowing for a strong scaling effect. It's still decentralized too, as opposed to other "side chains" or custodians.
God is good, therefore steak exists. Also, whiskey, cigars, and friends with whom to enjoy it all.
The ungodly are on their way to hell but are not yet there. As long as a man breaths, Christ can save him. With his final breath, one may have contrition for his life of sin, repent, and freely choose to cooperate with grace, accepting the gift God so desires to give, which is life. A soul devoid of all goodness is unable to freely accept that gift and God's grace, therefore those who have any chance of salvation, they are not yet totally depraved.
To have any power is good. Evil is not the negative of good but its absence, so cursed volition would be less and less volition until true volition is gone. Therefore, true and absolute evil, a volition with all goodness removed, is to lock oneself away in a self-made prison, far from grace. This permanent state, that is when it is absolute, is what we call hell.
We have concupiscence, true, and sin clouds and dulls the will and intellect such that it does not operate as freely as they might if pure, but this does not mean that our wills have no freedom or are fully devoid of goodness. Otherwise, man would have no power to accept the free gift of God's grace, man would have no ability to love, for love is voluntary, good, and free.
Eloquent and apt! God made all and what He made He called "good," and additionally the Son took on flesh, so the body itself is naturally good and supernaturally elevated. Since the body is one part in the union that is the human person, it cannot be said that any living human person has no good in him.
That would be a circular argument: man must cooperate with grace and therefore if a doctrine doesn't teach the ability to cooperate then it's a false doctrine.
Nowhere does Scripture teach that unregenerate man can or must "cooperate" with the grace of God. Enemies do not cooperate. We need complete rebirth (regeneration).
The eating of the forbidden fruit was an act of volition which carried with it the threat of death upon the eating. "In the day that you eat of it, dying, you will die." This curse was carried out upon Adam and all his posterity (descending from him by ordinary generation). Man's will was from then forward, being cursed, bent against God. This is what it means that we are "children of wrath by nature," "enemies of God," etc.
Man is completely free to choose whatever his nature desires. But the unregenerate man hates God and the things of God (again, see Romans 1 and Ephesians 2 among others).
We do not "cooperate with grace" any more than Lazarus "cooperated" with the call of Christ. All he brought to the table, so to speak, was a carcass.
For a fuller argument, see R. C. Sproul, [Pelagian Captivity of the Church](https://www.monergism.com/pelagian-captivity-church-0).
This is not a circular argument. It's a syllogism.
Example: All men are born of a mother; Jesus is man; therefore, Jesus has a mother.
This is another: to posses volition is good; cooperating with grace requires volition; therefore, to cooperate with grace one may not be totally depraved, that is lacking in all goodness.
Another: cooperating with grace requires one to not be totally depraved; some men cooperate with grace; therefore, those who cooperate with grace are not and have not been totally depraved.
Without volition, there is no sin, such as animals cannot sin and those sleeping or under sufficient duress cannot sin culpably. Additionally, to cooperate with or act against grace requires volition. Volition, that is free will, is a good humans posses due to our rational nature. Therefore, in order to voluntarily cooperate with grace, we must not be totally depraved, and therefore total depravity is a false doctrine, and so the gift of sufficient volition cannot be extinguished before damnation. One may say that damnation is the final extinguishment of the grace necessary to voluntarily choose grace or to resist it.
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Indeed. It's a matter of whether sin, original or actual, can extinguish the Imago Dei within the human soul. The Imago Dei, if it remains ones nature, causes one to be in his nature good. It is not a merit nor even voluntarily accepted, but part of the nature of the person. Sin clouds and eclipses the Imago Dei such that another observing might not see goodness, truth, or beauty within, but if all goodness would cease to be in the person, existence would likewise cease, for existence itself is a good.
Therefore, the human person, no matter how far gone, has goodness within. However it cannot be shown by this reasoning alone that it be necessarily enough to cooperate with grace, a separate, subsequent matter.