One counter-argument against pushing for greater scalability with Bitcoin is that “most people won’t self-custody anyway, so why bother?”
This is a wildly assumptive, arrogant, and outright fallacious argument. It is the same type of logical fallacy that human beings can’t help but make. The current state of the present is an indicator of what the state of the future will be.
“It’s not raining today, so it won’t be raining tomorrow.” It’s exactly the type of thinking that led Bitcoiners during the last market cycle to take for granted we would hit 100-200 thousand dollars as a peak then. That assumption was brutally destroyed by a double top at 69 thousand, a mere ~3.5x from the previous all time high.
The very nature of the digital age we live in, and the numerous radical transformations we have all seen within short periods of time during our lives alone should shake people out of their assumptions that the present is a demonstration of the nature of
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