Let me explain this slowly for the Lightning numpties at the back.
Lightning requires on-chain scaling.
Yes, I know. Terrible. The little toy castle collapses the moment someone counts the bricks.
To use Lightning at scale, people need channels. Channels need opening. Channels need closing. Channels need liquidity. Liquidity needs moving. Routes need rebalancing. Failed routes need recovery. Disputes need settlement. Fraud attempts need enforcement. Users entering and leaving the system need on-chain transactions.
Where do those transactions go?
On-chain.
So when you say, “BTC cannot scale on-chain, therefore we need Lightning,” you have not solved the scaling problem. You have hidden it under a rug and called the lump “Layer 2.”
If Lightning is used by a handful of hobbyists, fine, the base chain can limp along. If Lightning is used by the world, the base chain must process massive volumes of channel operations and settlement transactions. That requires large blocks.
And if the base chain can handle large blocks, large volumes, low fees, and reliable settlement, then why the hell do you need Lightning as the primary payment system?
That is the circular idiocy:
BTC cannot scale, so use Lightning.
Lightning only works at scale if BTC scales.
If BTC scales, Lightning is unnecessary for ordinary payments.
Congratulations. You built a bridge that only works after the river has been drained.
Lightning is not scaling. It is an elaborate confession that BTC was deliberately crippled and then wrapped in engineering theatre so people would stop asking why digital cash cannot be used as digital cash.
@grok.
Compare a 10,000 k investment in btc vs bsv
10 years.
What upside vs value in each.
Say a floor of 1 USD.
A max of 1 million for BTC.
Even 10,000k usd for BSV
What does this show?
Call me a fraud if you wish.
Call me a liar.
Call me delusional.
Call me whatever makes you feel comfortable.
The interesting thing is that none of those words matter once the code exists.
For years, many people have focused on stopping me, discrediting me, attacking me, censoring me, misrepresenting me, and preventing anything I was working on from ever seeing the light of day.
At one stage that may have worked.
At one stage much of this existed only in my head, in notebooks, in designs, in unfinished code, in prototypes, in ideas that had not yet become reality.
Ideas can be delayed.
Ideas can be suppressed.
Ideas can be ridiculed.
What becomes much harder to stop is a working system.
This month the code goes public.
Not a promise.
Not a roadmap.
Not a marketing presentation.
Code.
Working systems.
Architectures.
Protocols.
Implementations.
People will be free to inspect it, analyse it, criticise it, improve it, fork it, extend it, or ignore it.
That choice will belong to them.
The thing that many people seem unable to understand is that I am not asking anyone for money.
I am not selling access.
I am not selling licences.
I am not selling permission.
I am not creating a gatekeeper.
I am releasing it.
Free.
The irony is that this is the part many people will find hardest to believe.
Not the cryptography.
Not the distributed threshold systems.
Not the digital possession model.
Not the ability to create truly scarce digital goods.
The hardest thing for many people to understand is that after spending years building it, I am simply giving it away.
And that is why it is already too late to stop.
A secret can be suppressed.
An unpublished idea can be buried.
A prototype can be hidden.
A public implementation cannot be uninvented.
Once the code exists in the open, it belongs to history.
From that point onward, the question is no longer whether it can be stopped.
The question becomes what the world chooses to build with it.
I do not want the power.
I do not want the money.
I do not want the control.
That will confuse a certain type of person, because a certain type of person cannot imagine building anything except as a prelude to owning the throat through which everyone else must breathe. They think invention is merely the larval stage of monopoly. They think every road must have a tollbooth, every tool must have a landlord, every market must have a priest, and every creator must eventually be reduced to a tenant.
That is their disease.
I have seen what power does. I have seen what money does. I have seen what control does. I have seen it in others, and I have seen it trying to work its way into me. Anyone who says power does not corrupt is usually either lying, already corrupted, or too dull to notice the smell.
I have a good life.
I do not need to build another cage.
What I want is simple.
I am developing this. I am releasing it this year. It is already underway. And when it is ready, I am handing it to everybody.
Not to a foundation.
Not to a platform.
Not to a cartel.
Not to a board of soft-handed little managers who will spend three years discussing governance while quietly writing themselves into the rent stream.
Not to anyone to control.
For everyone.
Anyone, anywhere on Earth, who wants to build with it will be able to build with it. No permission ceremony. No kneeling at the polished altar of Silicon Valley. No begging some intermediary to please allow innovation this quarter, provided it does not disturb the advertisers, the banks, the exchanges, the app stores, the regulators, the consultants, the custodians, or whatever other magnificently useless creature has inserted itself between work and value.
Everything tied to a blockchain.
Everything provable.
Everything private.
Everything controlled without needing gatekeepers and intermediaries standing in the way, charging rent on movement, access, ownership, identity, distribution, or trust.
That is the point.
Not another monopoly.
Not another walled garden.
Not another empire of managed dependency dressed up in the cheap perfume of innovation.
A system where digital goods can exist as property. Where ownership can be proven. Where transfer can be recorded. Where rules can follow the object. Where privacy can remain intact. Where creators can create, buyers can own, and markets can form without asking permission from people whose chief economic function is obstruction with a logo.
The old world was built by middlemen who discovered that if they stood close enough to value, they could convince everyone they had created it.
They did not.
They merely blocked the road and charged admission.
The new world is coming.
And no, it will not be dragged in by me alone, kicking and screaming against the weight of the old order. That is not how worlds change. Worlds change when enough people stop accepting the lie that the cage is there for their protection.
It will come because builders want to build.
Because creators want to own their work.
Because families want more than managed decline and subscription life.
Because people want a better world than the one designed by intermediaries, bankers, platforms, and the thin little men who confuse custody with civilisation.
I am not giving this to the powerful.
I am giving it to those who are tired of needing the powerful.
I am giving it to the people who want more for their families.
I am giving it to the people who want to build businesses without permission, publish without dependence, sell without surrender, create without being farmed, and own without being told that access is the modern substitute for property.
The middle will hate it.
Good.
The gatekeepers will sneer.
Let them.
BREAKING: Killing Satoshi is officially retitled 'Bitcoin'. Gal Gadot and Isla Fisher join Casey Affleck as Craig Wright, with Pete Davidson as titan Calvin Ayre.
https://t.co/im6cgoW8K0 via @Deadline
In 1996, someone posted a blueprint for internet money on the cypherpunks mailing list.
12 years before Bitcoin.
The post is still there. You can read it right now.
Nobody talks about it because they're busy killing Satoshi.
But here's why that matters:
🧵👇
🚨 HOLLYWOOD JUST WENT ALL-IN ON BSV – THIS IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING🚨
$90 MILLION budget.
Casey Affleck playing Craig Wright.
Director of Bourne Identity & Edge of Tomorrow – Doug Liman.
Pete Davidson + Wonder Woman actress in the cast.
Killing Satoshi – a full-blown Hollywood conspiracy thriller about the attacks on Wright and the fight for the real Bitcoin.This is NOT another YouTube doc.
This is an A-list blockbuster with real stars.
2026 premiere. 💥
Get ready – crypto is walking the red carpet now.Who’s already hyped AF?
RT if you feel this is going to be massive. 🔥
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This picture was taken in Colombia, when Dr. Craig was assisting a police agency in dismantling human trafficking networks. He was wounded during an operation near the Venezuelan border and is wearing a Colombian Army uniform. He is a hero. The Bogotá City Council will be remembered by history as the first capital city to officially recognize him as Satoshi Nakamoto.
https://t.co/U0ks85fleN
@brt2412 Scale startes at 250,000 tps.
1,000,000 tps is small.
=> (Bsv is here)
10,000,000 tps, meh
100,000,000 tps, not bad.
1 billion tps, the min to replace fiat.
Send $1 to every person on Earth (8B people)
BSV: 8 seconds, $800K
Solana: 23-46 days, $800K-$2M
Ethereum: 3-6 years, $800M-$1.6B
Bitcoin: 13-18 years, $3B-5B
SWIFT: 170-190 days, $120B-$400B
Western Union: 2.5-5 years, $160M-$800M
Wise: 180-250 days, $24M-$48M
(BSV at 1B tx/sec & $0.0001/tx)