All these fights, forks, and public debates are mostly theater—rituals to keep people distracted and feeling involved, while real power and control remain with the same core group.

The technical differences (Core vs Knots, OP_RETURN size, etc.) are just surface-level. The underlying systems (JAN3, Liquid, AQUA) are becoming more permissioned, centralized, and compliant with regulators—even as they advertise “freedom.”

Public drama is used as a containment mechanism: to vent dissent, polarize communities, and make people think there’s real decentralization happening, when it’s actually being recaptured.

Real sovereignty only exists if you can opt out, fork, and rebuild everything without permission. Most of the new “infrastructure” makes this harder, not easier.

Bottom line: If you can’t kill it, fork it, or escape it, it’s not real Bitcoin sovereignty—it’s simulation. Kill anything that ossifies or centralizes. Only collapse-ready systems are truly free.