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sticking to principles is paramount. you see the long game. freedom isn't free, but it is worth the price.

they adopted monero, ethereum, and litecoin. all the transaction volume was on bitcoin at one point and later bitcoin lost most of it. people were already migrating to established networks with preexisting infrastructure before BCH existed. roger was right, they just didn't happen to choose the real bitcoin. the only way to get most of that transaction volume back without doing consensus changes would involve shoving everyone into spark and other centralized solutions. you need consensus changes to get the transaction volume to come back to bitcoin without digging yourself into a hole. spark should not be a thing you permit to grow.

As @goatmeal pointed out, if you had all the tx volume on Bitcoin, instead of a half-dozen different chains, you'd need bigger blocks. it works for you and I now because we're the only people using Bitcoin. everyone who isn't a zealot moved to something that offers a better UX. 2nd order solutions become unacceptably centralized. this is inevitable. but we can keep them *as decentralized as possible* by scaling as much as possible on L1 first. there's no issue with people making small transactions on L1 except that eventually it becomes too crowded. I understand the techie desire to preemptively solve the problem, but pushing people into centralized solutions before they are even necessary will only make it easier for regulators and harder for users. @gandlaf21

Back in the day we called this the spill over effect. It threw back adoption by a decade, but it enabled different approaches and new tech which ultimately can help us regain autonomy and sovereignity. Consciousness and undrstandjng evolves as we move through time. In retrospect we can say that most people were not yet ready to understand how systems (can) get caprured over time.