Bitcoin is, for me at least, a risk-assessed form of money. No engineered system, including Bitcoin, is perfect. No question about that. So when I ask myself, whether custodying UTXOs or sending and receiving via a lightning channel, what is the future? what does all this lead to? What are the risks or risk-factors of Bitcoin... and what is the long-term value of Bitcoin?

What is its future. And I think the future is sound money on the internet.

Then of course that 'sound money' on the internet in the long term has to unlock better transactions, better businesses, and more value for the people that use it. A better user experience than fiat money beyond just Number-Go-Up. That means zaps, lightning, Nostr, podcasts purchased by the minute with zaps... blog posts and articles, and a circular Zap and lightning economy that incentivizes value and the transfer of value.

Yes I'm overthinking it but I want to think about the Bitcoin 5 or 10 years from now, not the bitcoin today or literally tomorrow which doesn't tell us much.