The "hijacked" narrative is just a fairy tale for people who don't understand the technical reality of decentralization. BTC isn't a failed payment system; it is the first-ever hard-money settlement layer for the entire planet. If you bloat the blockchain by cramming every single coffee purchase into the base layer, you kill the network. Why? Because you make it impossible for a regular person to run a node on a basic computer. The moment you force users to rely on expensive data centers to verify their transactions, you've just rebuilt the banking system with a different name. We aren't "abandoning" the vision; we are protecting it. Even Satoshi himself recognized this, explicitly mentioning the need for separate transaction layers to handle small payments off-chain so the main network wouldn't be overwhelmed. By keeping the base layer lean and immutable while letting Layer 2s handle the noise, we are actually following Satoshi's roadmap. BCH chose a shortcut that leads straight back to centralization, but BTC chose the only path that ensures no one—no government and no corporation—can ever control the ledger. View quoted note →