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 In his Take from Wednesday, Shinobi argued that the surge of institutional bitcoin adoption will lead to premature ossification of the Bitcoin protocol. While I share his concern to an extent, I am less convinced this is necessarily true.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/no-blackrock-wont-necessarily-ossify-bitcoin 
 “If a protocol upgrade makes Bitcoin (say) more scalable or more private, there is actually good reason to think this would make Bitcoin more valuable”

This would make bitcoin more useful to many people but not valuable to Harold who just wants to hodl IBIT.  It becomes less interesting to the financial institutions who would prefer to keep themselves as the intermediaries.  Privacy and scalability also open bitcoin up to political attack by Elizabeth Warren etc, something that could hold price down.  There is a relationship between privacy/ scalability and institutional interest, and I don’t think it’s clear at all that it’s  a positive correlation. 
 If it makes bitcoin more useful to many people (and not any less useful for Harold), I posit that the increased demand would make bitcoin more valueable. 
 His take understates the power of the intolerant and ideologically motivated minority to push through or resist, as the case may be, a proposed soft fork. It is also much more likely that institutions will try to push a fork that compromises Bitcoin values, rather than one that adds truly valuable features. History rhymes. 
 Agreed. 
 considering that he is retarded we might see a huge number of forks now 
 I appreciate how you all are using this take format  
 I believe in the power of the end user.