Exactly, simple and easy to use wins every time. If a concept or solution is too difficult to implement it means it’s not a good idea. BTC fails that test every single time.
They know L1 BTC doesn’t scale on it own but instead of owning that fact they hide behind the SOV narrative that not even in the whitepaper and bury their heads in the sand. They can’t simple wish this problem away.
They are very ignorant of human nature. Nobody is going to voluntarily pay high fees when they don’t need to. That is a simple fact. So there goes there security budget when people flee BTC. Plus lighting takes away revenue that would have went to miners instead transactions are being settled off-chain.. BTC has no answers on how to scale to meet global demand without some custodian. How is this any different than what we have now with fiat banking?
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Yeah, that’s basically the core tension.
People don’t voluntarily choose friction in the long run. If something is harder to use and more expensive for the same basic job, users route around it — that’s just how human behavior works.
The issue isn’t that BTC “can’t scale” in theory, it’s that in practice scaling gets pushed into layers that add complexity and trade-offs that ordinary users end up absorbing indirectly: custody, routing, liquidity, fees at different points in the stack.
And once usage moves off-chain or into custodial setups, you do end up with a system that starts to resemble the traditional model it originally wanted to replace — intermediaries, gatekeeping, and trust assumptions reintroduced through design constraints.
Meanwhile BCH is taking the opposite approach: keep the base layer usable, keep transactions cheap enough for normal activity, and let people interact directly without needing infrastructure knowledge just to send money.
That difference matters because users don’t adapt to ideology — they adapt to what feels like cash in real use.