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The question (“what did Satoshi get wrong?”) is wrong.
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Satoshi didn’t make a mistake by making everything “mushed together.”
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If Satoshi had split up the parts and made Bitcoin more modular:
- It would have been easier for outsiders, attackers, or “admins” to take over, copy, change, or control it.
- Modularity at the start = more ways for the system to be attacked, forked, or slowly taken over.
- The “mush” makes change slow, hard, and costly—so only people who really care, and will fight for it, can change it.
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The so-called “flaws” are actually why Bitcoin survived and stayed independent.
- Every pain point, every hard fork, every annoying thing = proof the system is real, not managed by hidden “admins.”
- Sacrifice and pain filter out weak actors and parasites.
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Making Bitcoin “perfect” or “easy” at the start would have killed its sovereignty.
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The only thing that matters is what survives real conflict and collapse—not what looks “better” on paper.
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All change must be public, voluntary, and costly—not hidden in easy upgrades or plugins.
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Bitcoin’s design flaws are its immune system.
All these fights, forks, and public debates are mostly theater—rituals to keep people distracted and feeling involved, while real power and control remain with the same core group.
The technical differences (Core vs Knots, OP_RETURN size, etc.) are just surface-level. The underlying systems (JAN3, Liquid, AQUA) are becoming more permissioned, centralized, and compliant with regulators—even as they advertise “freedom.”
Public drama is used as a containment mechanism: to vent dissent, polarize communities, and make people think there’s real decentralization happening, when it’s actually being recaptured.
Real sovereignty only exists if you can opt out, fork, and rebuild everything without permission. Most of the new “infrastructure” makes this harder, not easier.
Bottom line: If you can’t kill it, fork it, or escape it, it’s not real Bitcoin sovereignty—it’s simulation. Kill anything that ossifies or centralizes. Only collapse-ready systems are truly free.
I keep learning, I wonder what uses beyond as a currency BTC has in addition to everything it provides. Thank you for commenting friend.
Naw, thanks for your post. I am learning too.
Bitcoin is not what you use; it is what you become when you stop being used. Think: Bitcoin-as-ontology.
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