But why?
For more than a decade, I've been hearing about scaling Bitcoin, Monero and thousands of other crypto projects to "billions of users". But why?
Take a look at most of the people around you in real life, and you'll see that people are satisfied with fiat currency and are willing to voluntarily give up 50% or more of their life energy to the government and its sponsors.
People without political backbone don't need Bitcoin, Monero, Nostr, Tor/i2p, or any other censorship-resistant FOSS.
quoting nevent1q…gy2dThis is true. If Monero adopted Drivechains I think it could become a real contender. Still, though, it would have to migrate most of its activity to the sidechain and make mainchain very small, in that sense it would be basically the same as eCash, only with a bigger initial user base and name recognition.
The bigger question to me is: can Monero scale to billions of people via Thunder-style sidechains but with Monero technology? If yes then those sidechains should probably be used in eCash instead, but I don't know.