Bitcoin is not found in a vacuum. It is not found outside the flow of time. We can’t just sit on our hands and do nothing while chasing the perfect, flawless, no downward improvements to this network and protocol.
The real world does not stop.
Yesterday, the most powerful nation state on the planet officially introduced a strategic reserve of Bitcoin. We are past the point without a return on a path now. Governments are here they are aware, They are actively attending now. The level of this participation will not shrink, it will not be reduced, it will only grow from here.
We do not have time to keep fucking around treating this project like a toy, an academic curiosity or an intellectual puzzle. It needs to be scaled, now. The count tales to the castrat bitcoin because of its lack of scalability is not only already here they are massive. They have the support of huge cuts of this ecosystem.
“Bitcoin is not to use it is to save.”
“If you need to shop, just use stableecoins (which is centralized, censoring and thin).”
“Bitcoin is security.”
We go asleep in a future where Bitcoin is a castrated useless toy. Where it does not give any privacy to anyone. It provides no censorship resistance or sovereignty to anyone. Where it is an useless hunk of lead to everyone outside a white listed and monitoring system.
Governments will not just sit on the thumbs as we cling and waste time until we find the perfect solution for scalability, and then go “secure things people, we get the right to activate it.” They will fight that tooth and nail. They don’t care about you, your freedom or your prosperity. They care about their own power. They will not support things that detract from their power and influence on you.
“Sorry we have to get our guys to look at this first, we’ll get back to you.”
“This seems risky, we cannot allow some Internet people who want to think, risk the value of a strategic national asset.”
“No, this looks like it will enable things, the last few years of decided that were decided were illegal.”
The world does not give any shit that you do not have the perfect feature or course of action, it will not sit on its ass and wait for this option to be available to you. It will continue to get on it will hold Removal and restriction the available options for you. There is no break button.
It’s time to stop fucking around and behaving like Bitcoin is an intellectual exercise, it’s a real thing in the real world. And it happens to be the only thing that gives us every chance that the future is not a dystopian nightmare hell.
This is not a game and it is time to stop pretending as it is.