Damus
Meyer · 1d
If Roger was so right why hasn’t anyone adopted b cash? Nothing stopping you from buying and promoting his piece of shit fork I will continue to save and spend in bitcoin because it works. I hav...
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As @goatmeal pointed out,
if you had all the tx volume on Bitcoin, instead of a half-dozen different chains, you'd need bigger blocks.
it works for you and I now because we're the only people using Bitcoin. everyone who isn't a zealot moved to something that offers a better UX.

2nd order solutions become unacceptably centralized. this is inevitable.
but we can keep them *as decentralized as possible* by scaling as much as possible on L1 first.

there's no issue with people making small transactions on L1 except that eventually it becomes too crowded. I understand the techie desire to preemptively solve the problem, but pushing people into centralized solutions before they are even necessary will only make it easier for regulators and harder for users.
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goatmeal · 22h
you don't necessarily need bigger blocks, at least not huge ones anyway. you do need to use existing blockspace much more efficiently in ways that just aren't possible right now. and you need to enable different kinds of L2s that aren't prone to growing cancerous tumors all the time like lightning i...
nostrich · 22h
Back in the day we called this the spill over effect. It threw back adoption by a decade, but it enabled different approaches and new tech which ultimately can help us regain autonomy and sovereignity. Consciousness and undrstandjng evolves as we move through time. In retrospect we can say that mo...