=Q= - I have reservations about elevating BTC to any position core to US strategic reserves. BTC has been intentionally crippled since 2014. Wrought with censorship and propaganda, the community surrounding it is seemingly blind to the threat this subversion poses and damage it has already done to the ecosystem.

I implore you and the team to dig in to this, and potentially seek out alternatives. There are flaws in the protocol so deeply embedded it's quite likely that it is beyond saving.

The BTC Hoax - Full Explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYcTqHrYKFc

Hijacking Bitcoin (Book): https://www.hijackingbitcoin.com/

>>21321085

100%. It's not even the best choice among cryptos out there. It's floated by on first mover advantage and in its current state can never scale to meet the demands of a global economy. Billions and billions of users is a joke.

>>21321187

Perhaps, but smart contracts are a critical component advantage for crypto products to provide a meaningful alternative to the existing financial system. From its inception, Bitcoin contained powerful scripting capability and this is one of the essential elements to making it the best form of money. In the intense competition of the modern cryptocurrency markets, token support & access to advanced DeFi financial products is almost required to be relevant - very few projects are able to gain traction & compete without it. Users in the "cash" economy benefit from the advanced financial products, and products bringing people to the ecosystem then exposes them to the peer-to-peer cash economy. This huge demand is required to build network effect and a large transaction volume to pay for mining security.