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Uh, this is a lot of bitcoin.

Product market fit with STRC it seems, this could get interesting once reflexivity comes into play

34k less wholecoiners

340k less 10 mBTC holders

Scaling argument is over

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I'm dense. How do you see STRC relating to the scaling argument?

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As I've said many times, the only real scaling limitation is supply and (lack of) divisibility.

There's a minimum amount of coin one needs to be a sovereign Bitcoiner, to invoke chain level security.

Every coin someone holds over that minimum removes other potential users. Saylor, ETFs, and so on slay potential holders exponentially.

Scaling larps love to talk about 8BN people, but 8BN will never even have the chance at owning enough Bitcoin to use it even if blocks remain sub-sat per vbyte forever.

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103 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 1h

This seems like an argument against scaling. Or are you saying now, BC Strategy hoovers up everything, we gotta scale faster/sooner...?

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an argument against scaling

Yes.

Scaling larp is usually focused on throughput and efficiency, which is retarded for these reasons

  1. Lightning already makes throughput infinite
  2. Batching already exists and fees are near zero without even using it
  3. Increasing throughput does not increase the user ceiling

The user ceiling is a function of supply given the lack of divisibility of the base unit, and the necessity of a minimum amount of bitcoin being owned to leverage chain security (some multiple of the dust limit plus non-zero fees to be unilateral)

Since supply is non-negotiable, and increased divisibility would break literally everything, such a fork is never going to happen. Therefore, Bitcoin cannot scale to raise the user limit.

In fact, every large Bitcoin buy downscales Bitcoin considerably.

Fortunately, raising the user limit is not necessary, because the peers in the "peer to peer electronic cash" turned out to be about 200M people/institutions, which is still a drastic improvement over 1 federal reserve.

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226 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 4h

I KNOW!

Will make a Strategy post tonight, featuring our beloved Mr. Livingston
https://x.com/AdamBLiv/status/2046244509244064250

About time