Nice article explaining bitcoin's role and countering common scaling fud.
Remember, Bitcoin’s entire value proposition as a global money depends on being neutral, censorship-resistant, accessible to everyone, and controlled by nobody. To have these properties, it’s essential the average person can run the full Bitcoin software.
It’s crucial to remember that Bitcoin is not merely a new way to make payments—like a competitor to PayPal or Venmo—or a new phone app. It’s something much more profound: a superior alternative to central banks.
Bitcoin provides a foundation for a new financial system that is decentralized, politically neutral, accessible to everyone, controlled by nobody, censorship-resistant, immutable, trustless, totally resistant to debasement, and not dependent on any third party.