What if Bitcoin was reimagined today, under modern cryptographic assumptions, using a principled minimalist architecture designed for long-term auditability and zero-trust adversarial environments?
I find it hard to imagine something that has already been invented, in other words, when we already have some kind of reference point to compare. It’s when something doesn’t exist that the situation is truly different. From other perspectives, I think we have altcoins for that, but even with its early issues, Bitcoin was something unprecedented and unimaginable at the time. It’s like discovering fire or inventing the wheel, you just can’t picture creating something like that from a modern perspective. I’m not sure if I made my point very clearly.