you can't replace the legacy financial system without replacing legacy financial instruments. by gimping all the tools at your disposal, chasing competent people away, and establishing a culture of saying "no" to everything, you're gonna be stuck with centralized lightning companies and custodial tradfi, and nothing else. some of the things knotzis like to say "no" to will get you out of this mess, while at the same time enabling some people to do things with bitcoin that you dislike. you'd rather have a centralized pet rock that bleeds hashrate. this isn't what most people want either, and you will lose. start thinking about saying "yes" to some things and people will take it more seriously. merge-mined sidechains are a great way to keep "arbitrary data" out of bitcoin L1 while permitting miners to optionally harvest fees from it, then you get programmable smart contracts as a bonus, which often are undeniably useful. things like CTV and CISA make bitcoin a better money, so start saying "yes" to that too. you can't win friends or hashrate by saying "no" to everything.

Doesn't bcash offer that? It's now a top ten coin, more usable than most "smart" contract chains. Why not use it instead?