Post by Bitcoin Dictionary

Bitcoin’s core design was set in stone.

BTC’s was apparently written on a pub napkin.

It has lurched from one fashionable intervention to another: SegWit, Taproot, policy changes, relay changes, soft forks, endless committee debates and periodic declarations that the protocol must evolve, all while insisting with a straight face that nothing fundamental has changed.

The contradiction would be charming if it were not so consequential.

They say, “Do not fix what is not broken,” after spending years altering what Satoshi actually built.

They say the rules are immutable, then debate which rules to change.

They say the protocol is neutral, while a small group decides which changes are acceptable.

And none of it resembles the original system of scalable electronic cash.

Bitcoin was meant to scale.

BTC was redesigned not to.

Calling the result “set in stone” is rather generous. It is more like wet cement guarded by men holding trowels and insisting no one is touching it.

Written by S. Tominaga