You bring up a very important point, and I think this is where the majority of Bitcoiners are split.
The plebs want fast, cheap, and private payments. Even LN without the vulnerabilities cannot compete with cash. Hopefully, the people on this side will realize drivechain is the only decentralized option.
The other side are the Michael Saylors and BlackRocks of the world. They do not want privacy or scalability. They want rich people to have a new rock to invest in, so they can trade it for CBDC tokens.
What do you want your Bitcoin to do?
I think you’re underestimating the risks with this. Sure would love cheap payments but not at the increased risk drive chains might be (I don’t know how much more risk they are, and I don’t think anyone is really capable of knowing that)
I’d argue the smart play is to prioritize security and add in the cheap payments later when ideally you can do it without changing the layer 1
It's a bit biased way to put it but my answer is: I'd rather be closer to Saylor et al and their billions than to plebs who enjoy running stuff on RPi, or whatever they do these days.
Thank you for your honesty. I hope that side loses though 😆
I know it seems like only the nerds want privacy, but the entire world NEEDS privacy. A $5 wrench attack hits much harder when governments can print wrenches out of thin air.
A lot of people have hope that Bitcoin will liberate us from fiat authoritarianism. Do you think this dream is dead?
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