kymafi on Nostr: Roger Ver notoriously stated, “If Bitcoin has to become like PayPal to scale, then ...

Roger Ver notoriously stated, “If Bitcoin has to become like PayPal to scale, then I’m okay with that.” He was implying that nodes don’t matter and should be centralized in order to “scale”… he was wrong. He didn’t understand that the nodes are soul of BTC. They decide what goes into blocks and what does not. If they centralized, bitcoin dies.

His shitcoin is worthless now. BCH didn’t scale, instead the BTC nodes continued buzzing and adoption grew. SegWit fixed the foundation, and Lightning proved that Bitcoin could scale without sacrificing its integrity. This made Bitcoin one of the cheapest and fastest decentralized mediums of exchange on Earth. It scaled through consensus of the nodes and innovation, not brute force or centralization.

Core is arguing the exact same fallacy as Ver by opening up op return, and dismissing plebs running an alternative client. It is the same debate in a much more disruptive form… a client maintained by devs who lie, gaslight, scam and don’t even own bitcoin.

At least Ver owned some Bitcoin.

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