Also on vacation, I read The Blocksize War, by @jonathanbier, about Bitcoin's scaling schism (2015-2017). Brilliant book. I thought I knew the story pretty well, but there was a ton of new stuff that I learned. Will write a review for the blog this weekhttps://www.amazon.com/Blocksize-War-controls-Bitcoins-protocol/dp/B08YQMC2WM/ref=nodl_ …
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It's a long game
For sure, but to the extent that the scalability problem is solved in the BTC ecosystem, it has been solved by centralization. There's a reason exchange traded happen in a high performance database and not on the chain itself. BTC is many things, but a trading technology it ain't
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Yeah, it's definitely not a trading technology. But it can aspire to be something else. And FWIW, I see Solana more as an ETH competitor than a Bitcoin. Just a totally different ballgame.
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If it’s not for trading then is it really worth existence?
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