Power isn’t about slogans.
Power is not about who yells the loudest, who slaps “decentralized” on a pile of broken code and sells it as freedom. Power is control—who has it, who wields it, and who gets crushed under it. BTC was never about liberty. It was about engineering a bottleneck so tight that the gatekeepers—the exchanges, the custodians, the so-called privacy services—became the new rulers.
Limited scalability isn’t a feature.
It is a leash. A controlled supply of block space means every transaction is a premium seat at a table run by middlemen. Fees spike, congestion locks out small players, and suddenly, the same people who scream about decentralization are the ones begging governments and institutions to legitimize their walled garden.
And here’s the punchline: when transactions are scarce, they’re easy to track.
The so-called privacy mixers? The coin-join services?
They operate in a system where every transaction is a breadcrumb, where the ledger itself is a slow, predictable trickle. Governments love BTC—not because they approve of it, but because it’s a surveillance dream. A small dataset, a fixed block size, and every major on-ramp crawling with KYC and AML enforcement. The so-called revolution became just another tool for control, a shadow banking system where your every move is on record, gift-wrapped for the people who already own everything.
BSV?
Different game entirely. Unlimited scaling isn’t just about transactions per second—it’s about shifting power from bottlenecks to open competition. When you can process millions of transactions per second, control slips from the hands of rent-seekers and back to the users. You don’t need third parties skimming off the top. You don’t need custodians acting as unofficial regulators. And the best part? Privacy exists—not in some half-baked “anonymous” coin-mixing grift, but in the simple reality of scale. A high-volume system makes mass surveillance impractical. Governments can target criminals, sure—but they can’t monitor every cup of coffee, every micropayment, every casual transaction between individuals.
BTC creates scarcity, and scarcity breeds control. BSV creates abundance, and abundance decentralizes power—not through empty rhetoric, but through pure economic reality. One is a system designed to be captured. The other is a system that makes capture obsolete. That’s the difference. That’s where power lives.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Mar 7, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1897948619946553350?t=XpLLEZT-_XBeq_3BJTp6og&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2641
Power is not about who yells the loudest, who slaps “decentralized” on a pile of broken code and sells it as freedom. Power is control—who has it, who wields it, and who gets crushed under it. BTC was never about liberty. It was about engineering a bottleneck so tight that the gatekeepers—the exchanges, the custodians, the so-called privacy services—became the new rulers.
Limited scalability isn’t a feature.
It is a leash. A controlled supply of block space means every transaction is a premium seat at a table run by middlemen. Fees spike, congestion locks out small players, and suddenly, the same people who scream about decentralization are the ones begging governments and institutions to legitimize their walled garden.
And here’s the punchline: when transactions are scarce, they’re easy to track.
The so-called privacy mixers? The coin-join services?
They operate in a system where every transaction is a breadcrumb, where the ledger itself is a slow, predictable trickle. Governments love BTC—not because they approve of it, but because it’s a surveillance dream. A small dataset, a fixed block size, and every major on-ramp crawling with KYC and AML enforcement. The so-called revolution became just another tool for control, a shadow banking system where your every move is on record, gift-wrapped for the people who already own everything.
BSV?
Different game entirely. Unlimited scaling isn’t just about transactions per second—it’s about shifting power from bottlenecks to open competition. When you can process millions of transactions per second, control slips from the hands of rent-seekers and back to the users. You don’t need third parties skimming off the top. You don’t need custodians acting as unofficial regulators. And the best part? Privacy exists—not in some half-baked “anonymous” coin-mixing grift, but in the simple reality of scale. A high-volume system makes mass surveillance impractical. Governments can target criminals, sure—but they can’t monitor every cup of coffee, every micropayment, every casual transaction between individuals.
BTC creates scarcity, and scarcity breeds control. BSV creates abundance, and abundance decentralizes power—not through empty rhetoric, but through pure economic reality. One is a system designed to be captured. The other is a system that makes capture obsolete. That’s the difference. That’s where power lives.
S. Tominaga AKA CSW
Mar 7, 2025
https://x.com/CsTominaga/status/1897948619946553350?t=XpLLEZT-_XBeq_3BJTp6og&s=19
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2641
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