1. Turkey had all sorts of controls in the past, and they will return. There are soft curbs in place right now. Yes, people subvert them, just like they __criminally__ circumvented controls in the past. [to your point about being a criminal, holding dollars in many countries is a crime, and many are committing that heinous crime as we speak]

a. https://www.duvarenglish.com/turkey-could-resurrect-past-def...

Scams: Permissionless systems can be trivially used by anyone, and yes there will be bad actors.

How do you have a permissionless system that only allows good guys? The best I've heard so far is collaborative deanonymization, but it is very much work in progress.

Governance: Proof of Work is an attempt to minimize governance. Proof of Stake is governance by plutocracy, but with emojis. I agree if an alternative to PoW can be found - it should be improved, but PoS is a regression to the status quo, not an improvement.

Ethereum itself is nothing but a quasi-corporation with all the politics that entails, it even has founders, foundation, ,trademarks, conferences, venture arm.

The best thing Satoshi has done is disappearing. It is for this reason I find Ethereum objectionable, the politics. Even a stupid exchanged-sponsored chain like BSC is more legitimate in that context, at least they do not pretend to be decentralized and have no control over the chain. Cringy as it sounds, Binance is more honest than Ethereum sometimes, lol.

I think Bitcoin community remains cognizant of devs being nothing but potentially another failure point and an attack vector, should they become compromised. This is why everyone is so big on running their own nodes, and only making thoughtful consensus changes.

Block size wars (they weren't debates) were really just a battle over who gets to control the protocol, and thankfully status quo prevailed.

I remain optimistic on Bitcoin's future for that reason - it could withstand a coordinated attack driven by quite intelligent people with large budgets. Today, it likely can only be attacked by a nation state, and not just in 51% sense, but also social attacks on miners, devs, and so on.

Lighting network: I'm not sure I understand your criticisms. It is exactly designed for smaller payments, which is why 70 million float isn't that big of a deal. Bitrefill does a good amount of LN volume, and I think it's use will pick up with exchanges coming on board. Bitcoin as a daily transaction currency is simply too nascent, still in the speculative growth stage. LN transactions are not decoupled from Bitcoin, and are in fact un-published properly formatted Bitcoin transactions. The security model is different, but I'd say it's certainly acceptable for payments up to 50-100k USD if not higher. Much work left to be done, but it is working.

Most of actual Lightning currency usage is in the third world. If USDC is cool - you must agree LN is doing good works too.

As for the common saying "fix the money, fix the world", I believe Bitcoin is far too early here, this may take decades or maybe even hundreds of years. I certainly do not expect it in my lifetime, but maybe my grandchildren will have additional freedoms. Just like we today take freedom of speech and association for granted, many of our grandparents did not. In fact, I believe people today gotten so soft and weak that our vigilance is slipping and we are slowly rolling back right into neofeudalism.

The point is to separate state power and money.Just like we separated state and religion, and it was great, I believe separating money will be just as beneficial.After all, money isn't just speech, it is also a religion of sorts.

I don't see this as an innovation in finance, get rich scheme, opportunity to make a quick buck, inflation hedge, good investment, etc.

I see it as a transformational quantum leap humanity can make, something on the scale of the printing press. That is the reason why I support it. It is one of the most important public goods one can be working on today.

It can fail, which would mean we are not yet ready for that stage in development and Bitcoin was before its time.

We must indeed become multi-planetary species if we are to survive and travel to other stars. Do you see interstellar species trade by using money issued by some banking cartel? shiny rocks of the Au79 element?

Money is information. Bitcoin is a very solid attempt at that.