#asknostr
I just found @CsTominaga - S Tominaga - on Twitter. What's everyone's take on his #bitcoin takes?
Here's what Grok thinks are the five biggest legit concerns he brings up:
1. Scalability Woes: BTC's base layer maxes at ~7 TPS in 2025, far from Visa's 65,000+ TPS needed for global cash—block size caps (1MB base, ~4MB with SegWit) force off-chain layers, killing true P2P micropayments without added risks.
2. LN Not Saving Us: Lightning Network capacity dropped ~20% to 4,200 BTC in 2025, showing adoption lags; it's growing for enterprises but can't hit mass scale without base fixes, turning BTC into "digital gold" only.
3. Security Time Bomb: Halvings cut miner rewards to 3.125 BTC/block; by 2060, subsidies near zero, relying on sky-high fees ($200+/TX) or risk hashrate drops and 51% attacks in a death spiral.
4. Declining Security Budget: BTC's security spend fell 40% over four years (CPI-adjusted), with smaller miners exiting and hashpower centralizing (96-99% blocks by six pools)—price can't pump forever to cover it.
5. Privacy Nightmare: Transparent ledger enables easy tracing and seizures; without scaling for fungible UTXOs, it's not cash-like—2025 privacy regs block progress, and tools like CoinJoin face delistings or
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That's CSW. Don't waste your time.
1- compare bitcoin with Fedwire not visa.
2. FIAT value in lightning is higher today than it was last year.
3&4. This fud have been around for 8 years, if tax fees are low it’ll be a mining death spiral, if fees are high bitcoin is broken.
5. There is a lot of work being done for privacy, it’s all on a gradient. If you don’t want the barrrista to know how much you have use lightning. Join market for larger amounts.
IMHO the bigger problems are the increased use of kyc/aml bitcoin, spamming the chain and miner centralization, the ones mentioned have been addressed repeatedly and are generally m5m critiques.
Old fud, all his points are easily debunked and dismissed. Bitcoin has other more important issues. These ones are nothing burgers basically. Ignore him, clearly lacks understanding and deep knowledge of Bitcoin.
Thanks for weighing in. You know better than me what’s fud and what isn’t. 🙏🏻👊
I so much to learn…
Thanks for weighing in. I’m excited for the weekend for some bitcoin education. 🙏🏻👊
Check out some of @Matthew Kratter's older videos on YouTube. He has covered all of these in the past.
I love that guy! Will do!
I agree, it’s a rabbit hole.