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> the tech is fundamentally inferior to status quo for the things they propose it solves, and at this point I think it's been long enough to judge.

What do you know about bitcoin's lightning network?

How would you respond to people in el salvador who are very happy with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVVZXUFItZY



Those would be the same people in El Salvador who protested in the streets over being asked to use Bitcoin? They know a corrupt elite when they see one:

https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/9/8/salvador-protest-...


Or Loopring, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism. Complete Ethereum L1s move to Proof of Stake, and use one of the above for actual transactions and you have a super fast decentralised way of making transactions that's orders of magnitude more energy efficient than Bitcoin.




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