The idea cannot fail. Like humanity cannot forget fire, after has discovered fire.

Regret not doing more to help it succeed.

Regret a missed opportunity - not for us - for the world.

Bitcoin has risks both known and unknown. Finding perfect consensus on the urgency and impact on any given risk is impossible. They can only be estimated. And some of them only emerge under certain conditions or specific contexts, each of those having their own probabilities that change over time.

Making protocol changes in a neutral and unbiased way has become increasingly difficult. We are approaching laissez-faire-by-default, via ossification.

The crown-joule of Bitcoin is the ticker and the immaculate conception of it's issuance. We can never get these back if we lose them. Laissez-faire could cost us both.

The Bitcoin community creates an indefinite series of hardforks at a planned frequency, under a certain set of safer conditions than testing on the main-chain, such that the new chain ("Satellite Chain") can serve as both a sandbox and undo-point, for the main chain. To achieve this safety to innovate, and remove the contentiousness, all the satellite chains get launched with an oracle from the main-chain that feed into difficulty bombs on the new chain. These difficulty bombs would be disarmed under only two conditions. Either an extended problem with the main-chain is detected (Eg. 52 sequential negative difficulty adjustments), or a community consensus to hard-fork the "satellite"-chain, to remove the difficulty bomb.

It would be like A/B testing in production, except we plan to destroy B, unless it proves that A has a material flaw, such that B is the next best logical choice. It's the backup plan.

It would take the contentious-ness out of planning/lobbying for new ideas. Instead of people screaming "YOUR DUMB! GFY and your drivechain.". People could calm down and say "I disagree with the idea, but put it on the next satellite that's scheduled to go out.". It's effectively a framework for innovating. And I don't think the entire community has to even support this framework, as it's permissionless in it's approach. Although it could likely be made stronger if the main-chain added features to help the oracle.

The satellite should not be seen as a threat to the ticker, nor attempt to "takeover" or become "the real bitcoin".

Like a planet that is running out of resources (eg. time until it's own sun burns out), one solution would be to launch satellites to help look for a new inhabitable planet. The satellites likely don't come back. They send data, but that's likely it. They might be a total waste. But we'll learn something every time we launch one. And if we're lucky, one of them, might find a new inhabitable planet before the one we're on runs out.

It won't fail, because there is no single Human or Entity controling it.

Define failure?

I will never financially recover and be a wage slave for the rest of my life if im lucky or someone who has to rely on the state and somehow make it out to a country that has a fiat currency that works, but I'll likely still not be worse off than a lot of people so who knows?

My net worth would quite literally crash to 0.

Wouldn't lose my home, but would lose a lot of hope.

If it fails, they would make a quantum Bitcoin solution learning from it.

As long as you have electricity and internet access, it's fine

This topic is not something any single person should think about. Bitcoin is decentralized, and these are out of our comprehension to even grok. While it might make someone feel better to think about it, the bitcoin network isn't possible to understand by ourselves. Relish in the fact that it's more powerful than we can imagine.

What has happened to you as Fiat money is failing every second??? Your answer lies here.

But bitcoin's fail can't be irredeemable like your fiat.

If Bitcoin fails we all fail (except maybe the fiat rich). We'll just enter an endless loop of pseudo long-term "stability" created using money we don't have, and deeply devastating crashes between generations until we get into a big enough crash we won't be able to recover from. This is assuming "failure" means the value of Bitcoin will crash relative to fiat for some currently unforeseen reason.

The only possible failure scenario is every government on the globe embraces hard money and stops printing, and somehow can credibly be trusted to stick to this indefinitely, thus making Bitcoin unnecessary.

I would still credit Bitcoin for forcing governments to become responsible, so even this "failure" would be an incredible win for humanity.

It may dip... may dip hard, but will never fall

If bitcoin fails then I fucked up😂 All my life savings in bitcoin except my house and car. (YET)😂🙏 Let's not bring this energy here. Stack sats and spread adaption. That's the way plebs

What is your definition of Bitcoin fails?

Since you mentioned investment, I guess price-wise? But Bitcoin is not an investment; it is freedom money - if sovereign individuals are happy to exchange value with each other with Bitcoin, why would it fail?