avoiding debates from the younger crowd posting above that pretend they know whats best.. (they seem more of the cultish group)

i am from the 2012 entrance era of bitcoin.

i myself only use bitcoin. and i mean bitcoin not the other networks that brand steal bitcoin
i do not fear reading code, and playing around on the other networks, for research.. but its not networks i use as my store of value or use them for utility..

i have not touched other altcoins(for value store/utility) like litecoin for about 8 years,
but i dont fear looking at other altnets and subnets and projects for research purposes and learning opportunities

my personal opinion (yes you must all by now know i have one, and its my independent opinion not own passed down to me by the cultish groups)

is that bitcoin has alot of potential, but that is currently stifled by the cultish loyalisms of a certain core group that had led to power. and theor loyal supporters that fight off any idea's that dont follow the DCG roadmap... even the lead maintainer of the core dev group of has admitted to the centralisation

there is a cultish mindset in the community since about 2015..  that support this stupid central point of failure, which has caused problems for the progress of bitcoin growth (on the bitcoin network,.. not to be confused with the offramping games to subnetworks pretending to also be bitcoin(by the cultish lot of younger people who entered bitcoin much later))


bitcoin could have done alot of ON BITCOIN growth in the last 7 years and had some good utility progress.
bitcoin still has potential for this growth.
i am and will remain a bitcoin maximalist. but i am a realist and can happily call out the issues and risks and problems, because by being a realist, people can be awake to then work on those problems rather than lul people into cultish sleep of whatever silly games they wish to play