This might be an ill-informed question, but I came across this recently and was wondering how we feel about BTC upgrades/improvements?
It feels like BTC is now chasing fiat gains over building a global p2p economy, hoping that lightning network or some other L2 solves the scaling problems for non-custodial transactions.
https://blog.plan99.net/the-resolution-of-the-bitcoin-experiment-dabb30201f7This is actually a great topic. I don’t know any of the current btc devs but I’d love to hear what the most advanced cryptographers here have to say about them.
I am with you on the other part of this. I don’t currently give a fuck about Ordinals and crap like that. I want to see a faster p2p payment network, like you mention.
The other thing I want to see is Satoshis proposed 2 party escrow system. I know this isn’t an easy task (something Gmaxwell has discussed with me specifically, and I’ve heard Szabo go into some detail about it, so I know it’s nothing easy to accomplish.. but if I could program at an elite level, man I’d be working day and night to create that.