Bitcoin's TODO list

1. volatility

• Briefly On Volatility

2. privacy

• CashFusion - Initial implementation done. Needs improvements and ecosystem rollout.

• Collaborative CoinJoin

• reusable/stealth payment addresses - Initial implementation v2 done. Needs ecosystem rollout.

3. speed

0-conf

• Double Spend Proofs: What they are and how they work - Initial implementation done. Needs ecosystem rollout (wallets, POS apps, exchanges, services, ATMs, payment processors, ..)

• 0-conf enforcement

• 50-unconfirmed limit

• 2.5 minutes weak blocks?

• Avalanche ?

• Lightning Network ?

1-conf

• DAA fix

• ETH/XMR style automatic max block size. ABLA

• 128MB max block size (superseded by ABLA)

• 5 minutes block time

• Bobtail ?

• Storm ?

4. programmability

• Why Mises would love Mitra; Bitcoin Cash‘s hidden superpower that even Ethereum 2.0 doesn‘t have (mostly superseded by CashTokens)

• PMv3 (superseded by CashTokens)

• CashTokens

• SLPv2 ? (mostly superseded by CashTokens)

• Group tokens (mostly superseded by CashTokens)

• multiple op_returns

• introspection

• big num

• op_mul

• https://smartbch.org/ - Initial implementation done. Needs decentralized bridge (SHA_Gate).

• bounded loops

• script limits retarget

• script limits increase ?

5. governance

• Briefly on Governance

6. education

Awareness phase is over - nowadays practically everyone knows bitcoin exists. Unfortunately the understanding is muddled with many myths - bitcoin is digital gold, bitcoin is bad for the environment, bitcoin is slow/expensive/unreliable, there were better systems invented already, bitcoin cash is a scam, ...

• Mythbusting community

7. fair legal status

Today typically Bitcoin is unfairly disadvantaged compared to gold, stocks, and other currencies, which severely hinders adoption.

• https://news.bitcoin.com/el-salvador-offers-no-capital-gains-tax-permanent-residence-crypto-entrepreneurs/

If you can think of other things that are still to be done for bitcoin to reach its full maturity, or can point to projects trying to solve the above points, please share in the comments.