Thread by @MessariCrypto

It’s a bitcoin session! What’s going on with the original coin?

With 🕶 @udiWertheimer, @brockm, @Gina__Abrams and led by @Old_Samster

#mainnet2022

@udiWertheimer @brockm @Gina__Abrams @Old_Samster "Decentralisation and censorship-resistance are not use-cases. They are properties of a system," says @brockm. "Bitcoin addresses a very important problem. It's a primitive upon which we can build powerful applications for the transmission of value. Payments is the killer app."

@udiWertheimer @brockm @Gina__Abrams @Old_Samster "[DeFi and NFTs] did create a digital circular economy, which is something Bitcoiners were interested in since day one," says @udiWertheimer. "Should we change Bitcoin to allow that? I would say probably not. But we need a middle ground." #Mainnet2022

@udiWertheimer @brockm @Gina__Abrams @Old_Samster The free software movement had a similar fanaticism [to bitcoin maximalism]... you could argue it was pretty important to creating the developer ecosystem that exists today around Linux. But I don't think Windows and Mac had to lose for Linux to succeed. — @brockm #mainnet2022

@udiWertheimer @brockm @Gina__Abrams @Old_Samster "There's an opportunity to implement these [new innovations] in layers without changing the Bitcoin main chain itself," says @Gina__Abrams, naming Lightning, Stacks and other ecosystems as possible solutions. #mainnet2022

@udiWertheimer @brockm @Gina__Abrams @Old_Samster What are you excited about that's being built on Bitcoin right now? @Old_Samster
"Bitcoin as a productive asset" — @Gina__Abrams
"Solving the payments use-case" — @brockm
"Bitcoin as a fiat-currency alternative" — @udiWertheimer

#mainnet2022