Seth For Privacy (npub1tr4…2y5g) has been a significant part of my moving from a casual user/observer of monero, to diving into the technicals as I have been doing with bitcoin.
Bitcoin isn't "this perfect" because of Satoshi. We can still only speculate, but Satoshi might have felt that he was already creating such a radical idea with inventing bitcoin, that he restrained himself on certain things, for the sake of adoption. Adoption at any level in those early days, not necessarily mass adoption.
He knew there would be alt coins, forks, knock offs, and payment layers and apps built on top of bitcoin. Maybe he wanted to leave enough room for others to do something with it.
Bitcoin can be compared to Linux. You can use Gentoo and compile from source code yourself. You can also use Ubuntu, and not even realize you are using Linux. Bitcoin is like Gentoo, and Monero is like Ubuntu.
Delta Charlie
npub1aq…vmhkh
2024-02-15 11:23:50
in reply to nevent1q…w4wf
Author Public Key
npub1aqxs793kps5eanmvnse97at6nc975pg6e0c6tjzxq700x0jzdl7qvvmhkhPublished at
2024-02-15 11:23:50Event JSON
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