Bitcoin is first and foremost about censorship resistance and decentralization. The rest is bells and whistles.
Everyone needs to understand that. Time to put this back in my sig.
Resiliency, not efficiency, is the paramount goal of decentralized, non-state sanctioned currency -
Jon Matonis 2015if you can trade off a small amount of decentralization for a large gain in efficiency...
it's not so clear cut.