I've had a weird relationship with Bitcoin lately.
I think about community developments on things such as LN , Vanity search projects, tools, tickers scrapers ECT.....
How they where developed by altruistic members for the chance of creativity, freedom and decentralized banking.
Bitcoin is now a store of value ,a commodity of fiat held by institutional parties.
Major altruistic contributors , sidelined. Some got tips. Most got nothing.
If fees stay at 1 Satoshi , will LN/Layer 2 really be necessary? What happens when we are all mined up, no one sells and only holds, and the mining fees don't cover the electric bill. Bitcoins showing signs of fatigue and stagnation overall. Will it die ,I don't think so, but Bitcoin doesn't appear to be designed for and by cypherpunks.
If it was , wall street weaponized it.
I've dedicated a lot of my life to this particular branch of cryptography, I've learned a lot! But it kinda feels like it was for nothing at this point. I've publicly released all my crypto projects source codes and walking away from developing in this sector.
I'll still be around speculating but that's about it.
I was not a hodl person. So while I made money with BTC or profit or wealth I did not get rich.
Now at 68 And being with BTC in 2012 when coins dropped to 6 or 7 bucks after the 1/2 ing it is easy to torture my self
That I should have got 100 coins for 600 or 700 bucks and sell 10 at 1000 a coin and 10 at 10000 a coin and 10 at 100,000 a coin. which means I would have 70 coins and a decent amount of cash.
Well that never happen but I did make some money I can use. For those that held 100 or more coins until they were valuable good for them.