You should understand the difference between Bitcoin supporters and Latter Day Bitcoin Supporters.
Bitcoin supporters:
Bitcoin can work as a p2p cash system
Bitcoin can scale!
Bitcoin supply should remain capped to ~21M
Bitcoin needs high transaction volume to succeed
Bitcoin needs low fees to remain competitive
Bitcoin can be energy efficient if it processes lots of transactions
0-conf is fine for certain payment cases (depends on amount, physical good or not, etc)
Infrastructure costs will be low enough over time to enable Bitcoin to scale up on chain as demand increases
Blind auction artificial fee market would severely harm or destroy retail adoption
Not needing third parties (intermediaries) is a key strength of Bitcoin
Latter Day Bitcoin Supporters:
Bitcoin could not work as designed
Bitcoin does not scale
Bitcoin is a terrible payment system
Retail payments is not an interesting use case
Bitcoin is supposed to be store of value
Bitcoin needs Lightning Network to work
Bitcoin is digital gold first and foremost
Bitcoin is more decentralized than any other crypto
Bitcoin can succeed if people only HODL
Bitcoin is not for poor people
Bitcoin development is not centralized
It's not bad that Bitcoin uses so much energy for very few transactions
0-conf is always insecure
Bigger blocks would terminally centralize Bitcoin
Lightning Network can scale Bitcoin adoption without big blocks
Just use custodial services and don't worry
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