Bitcoin is not meant to scale on the protocol level because it will foster centralization and introduce attack vectors.
Don't you think then, if that really is the case, that Bitcoin has failed?
Poeple got brainwashed by the antonopoulos socialist propaganda that bitcoin will save the world and other gavineries populist nonsense.
That's an interesting perception. Do you feel that the world isn't in need of "saving"?
The reason he doesn't
want the system to scale on the protocol level is because he wants that level to be the elitist and privileged level. The clear message to everyone else is "
GTFO my chain, peasants" and to hell with the rest of the world. Force everyone else onto a less secure and more centralised level. He's been
quite clear about his true goals in all this. I personally don't see Bitcoin as a get-rich-quick scheme. I think when the legacy economic system does inevitably collapse into some gaping debt vortex, Bitcoin shouldn't just be there to create a new 1% to replace the old one. Obviously it can't help everyone, but I'd like to see it benefit more than just a few lucky people who got in early. If that makes me a filthy socialist then so be it.