This is just not true.
Until las week I was transferring satoshis here and there for as low fees as 3 sats per byte, 5 sats per byte.


Bitcoin is better than any other shitcoin if you run the first version of it. "More useful" blockchain is just a way to pervert the purpose that this thing was created in the first place.

A bunch of people were worried about how to transact with each other without having a State bureaucrat  on your neck seeing everything and able to censor if they don't agree with what you use your money for.

If you want other utilities, go somewhere else. Leave the thing that is working fine alone and create your own thing.

1. Transfer money freely between free individuals
2. Make impossible to States and Governments and any institution to prevent you from having what is yours or using your money as you wish.
3. Useful commands to make business transactions, complex transactions between business and individuals to be more efficient and secure

Now we have:
3. Use it like a cloud storage to save stupid low resolution images
4. Use it like a notebook to save useless jsons for useless imaginary tokens

See how the thing is degrading slowly?

Just stop messing with what is working peacefully.

I would not be surprised if the incredible Ordinals idea had come from a Government agency seeking to destroy the real purpose of Bitcoin.

Well I couldn't agree more in this. Of course we know that a lot of government and financial institutions are a 100% against Bitcoin and whatever it's promising to offer due to its decentralized nature. Bitcoin has removed complete financial control from their hands and the fast rising of Bitcoin poses more threat to them, millions and more are choosing Bitcoin as the day go by so it wouldn't be a thing of surprise if the whole idea of ORDI is from these said Government and Financial Agencies.

An undisputed professional world heavyweight boxing champion was once asked in an interview why he still woke up every 4am to train even while he was an undisputed champion, his response was that, he wakes up that time to train because he knows by that time all his opponents would probably be busy sleeping and gaining weight, despite being a heavyweight champion he wouldn't make the mistake of underestimating his opponents.
And that if he ever discovers that any of his opponents are waking up by 4am to train like he does, he'd start waking up by 2am, to make sure he stays at the top.

My point is that, being at the top of all the Blockchains is the more reason why Bitcoin should keep making improvements to make sure they stay there.




Thanks for your contribution, this was truly informative and educative, I wasn't at first aware of this fact but now I do. Thank you

If someone think that paying 2-5 sat/byte (less than 0.5 usd) to make a permitionless/borderless/pseudoanonymous transaction is less than 30minutes is expensive..  well, that person doesn't understand bitcoin.

For the rest of the world, we all find bitcoin very cheap and useful.

If you dont care about decentralization,  Just go for visa. Don't use shitcoins.

I once heard antonopoulos saying something like that:  " bitcoin wasn't made for you to buy a coffee at Starbucks,  but to help you buy a bus ticket when flying away from war"

About scalability, second layer solutions will come, and we already have LN

Lol, this has been discussed since 2017 and that's why we have a lot of Bitcoin forks. And guess what happened to those big blockers? Yeah, you are correct, no one even remember them and majority has died down already.


You are wrong, 6 confirmations are the best to secure the network, and they are still up to this day and we have seen bitcoin's blockchain being more secure than ever. In fact, it's uptime it's almost 100%.

If you wanted to check bitcoin's confirmation as compare to other altcoins? you might want to read it here:

https://github.com/lukechilds/howmanyconfs.com

It's correct if you move big amount of money, but it's expensive when it's used regularly for pay something that only worth $1-$10 multiple times.

Currently gas fee isn't really that expensive, it's similar like the current fee in Bitcoin on chain network.

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Correct, it because of people who always praising Bitcoin like Bitcoin is their God or Bitcoin who gave birth to him.

As the age old saying goes: its not spam as long as the person doing it is paying the fee. Same goes for any other transaction done on the chain.
As for it causing issues for Bitcoin, sure that can happen. Solutions must/will be found to combat this, or something else will take over the day to day transaction part of the chain (which is already kind of has)

Definitely, No.
To process the infinite transactions per second we need infinite resources as simple as 2 + 2. Try to catch the point the Infinity cant be achieved even if we cant predict the approach to Infinity.

When it comes to the Blockchain to achieve the triangle (Secure, Scalable & Decentralized) we have the L2 solutions on the Base-Chian It is not possible to achieve this triangle cheaply. I would like to quote and explain what I've learned a couple of days before in this section posted by the senior, to achieve better security you need to pay better.

You cant expect a secure environment for cheap.

There has been a lot of periods when fees where high, which is kinda bad for a payment system, because it makes it unreliable. So it's better to assume the worst case and just accept that onchain transactions are expensive.

And by design they will be getting more expensive, because blockspace is quite limited and can't be expanded to satisfy all demand. Plus miners will have to have fees as main source of reward in the future when block reward will get too small.

You can compare them with real data and charts.
https://bitinfocharts.com/comparison/transactionfees-btc-eth-doge-xrp-ltc.html#3y
https://blockchair.com/compare (Choose altcoins you want to compare with Bitcoin)

Ethereum is a paradise for scam projects that can easily hype greedy people. When those people become greedy, they will naturally join a transaction fee race with other people just to want to get their transactions have quick confirmations. Because they don't want to missing out great chances with scam projects and feel like $10, $20 or more cost for a transaction is not a big issue if they will get big profit from scam project later.