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utxo the webmaster ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป · 4d
The success of bitcoin is not written in stone despite how many podcasts you listened to It requires new users to grow its network effect It requires merchant adoption to actually have demand It re...
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so why and when it went so wrong? none of that has had any real world impact since (check notes) forever... the only thing that bitcoin has done in 14 years is gone up in price and create products for 24/7 financial markets....

i wasn't there so won't know for sure, but is it possible that those who won the block size wars were the bad guys? i don't mean in the sense of block size, i mean in the sense that they just wanted to make bitcoin a worldwide scam?
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utxo the webmaster ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป · 4d
I don't think so, it's a pretty dumb idea to think everyone will store all transactions forever in history on their home computers. We need a way to compress transactions down a lot, with new layers for less important transactions