Everyone is cheering for institutional adoption and slick custodial wallets, but we are quietly ignoring the elephant in the room: the ratio of fully validating nodes to users is dropping. If the narrative shifts entirely from "Don't Trust, Verify" to "It's easy to buy on an ETF/Custodial app," we aren't winning; we are just recreating the fiat banking system with a hard-capped ledger. Three things we need to fix yesterday: Stop praising custodial lightning as a "solution." It's a band-aid. Direct more dev bounties toward 1-click full node setups (like Umbrel, but lighter). Stratum V2 adoption is moving at a snail's pace. Miners are still trusting pools blindly. Are we building a revolution, or just a more volatile S&P 500 tech stock? Let’s hear your hard truths.
Everyone is cheering for institutional adoption and slick custodial wallets, but we are quietly ignoring the elephant in the room: the ratio of fully validating nodes to users is dropping.
If the narrative shifts entirely from "Don't Trust, Verify" to "It's easy to buy on an ETF/Custodial app," we aren't winning; we are just recreating the fiat banking system with a hard-capped ledger.
Three things we need to fix yesterday:
Stop praising custodial lightning as a "solution." It's a band-aid.
Direct more dev bounties toward 1-click full node setups (like Umbrel, but lighter).
Stratum V2 adoption is moving at a snail's pace. Miners are still trusting pools blindly.
Are we building a revolution, or just a more volatile S&P 500 tech stock? Let’s hear your hard truths.