What you do not get to do—what you will never be entitled to do—is mutate the underlying Bitcoin protocol because you are too mediocre to compete on top of a fixed one. The rules are set. The protocol is not your toy, not your laboratory, not your route to relevance. If you want to win, build better. If you cannot, then lose with some dignity.
That is the arrangement. It is not cruel. It is simply grown-up.
I’m a Christian. I believe in God. And whether that makes sense to you or not is entirely beside the point, because I take a long-term view of things. Not the short-term noise people obsess over, not the daily outrage cycles, but the arc of where things end up.
And on that basis, what happened a few years ago—the court case, all of it—I see as good. Not convenient. Not easy. Not something I would have chosen in the moment. But good in outcome. It removed me from a cycle of endless travel, endless noise, endless engagement with people who contribute nothing but expect everything. It gave me something far more valuable: time.
Now I travel when I choose. I work when I choose. I live my life with my wife without constantly being dragged into someone else’s drama or expectation. Yes, there are still idiots. That doesn’t change. But there are far fewer of them in my day-to-day life, and I am no longer obligated to engage with them.
And more importantly, I am no longer fighting the same pointless battles. I’ve stepped out of that.
Because here is the thing people don’t seem to grasp. If I were in the position you all obsess over, I would still be dealing with the same nonsense—people like Bryan telling me how the protocol needs to change, how it could be improved, how their latest idea should be adopted. Endless governance theatre. Endless attempts to insert themselves into something that was never meant to be governed.
Instead, there is no need for that. There is no governance. The protocol is set.
If people want to build something better than Teranode, they are free to do so. They can form a company, raise capital, compete in the market, and deliver something that works better. That is how progress happens.
But what they cannot do—what they will not do—is change the protocol itself.
And this is the distinction they keep missing. A better Teranode, if such a thing ever exists, is a better implementation. It is not a better protocol. The protocol does not change to accommodate their ambitions.
So yes, I consider the outcome good.
It removed the noise. It clarified the boundaries. It left the work intact.
And that is all that ever mattered.
2/2
S. Tominaga, AKA CSW
Apr. 7, 2026
https://x.com/i/status/2041304361939480577
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/5251
That is the arrangement. It is not cruel. It is simply grown-up.
I’m a Christian. I believe in God. And whether that makes sense to you or not is entirely beside the point, because I take a long-term view of things. Not the short-term noise people obsess over, not the daily outrage cycles, but the arc of where things end up.
And on that basis, what happened a few years ago—the court case, all of it—I see as good. Not convenient. Not easy. Not something I would have chosen in the moment. But good in outcome. It removed me from a cycle of endless travel, endless noise, endless engagement with people who contribute nothing but expect everything. It gave me something far more valuable: time.
Now I travel when I choose. I work when I choose. I live my life with my wife without constantly being dragged into someone else’s drama or expectation. Yes, there are still idiots. That doesn’t change. But there are far fewer of them in my day-to-day life, and I am no longer obligated to engage with them.
And more importantly, I am no longer fighting the same pointless battles. I’ve stepped out of that.
Because here is the thing people don’t seem to grasp. If I were in the position you all obsess over, I would still be dealing with the same nonsense—people like Bryan telling me how the protocol needs to change, how it could be improved, how their latest idea should be adopted. Endless governance theatre. Endless attempts to insert themselves into something that was never meant to be governed.
Instead, there is no need for that. There is no governance. The protocol is set.
If people want to build something better than Teranode, they are free to do so. They can form a company, raise capital, compete in the market, and deliver something that works better. That is how progress happens.
But what they cannot do—what they will not do—is change the protocol itself.
And this is the distinction they keep missing. A better Teranode, if such a thing ever exists, is a better implementation. It is not a better protocol. The protocol does not change to accommodate their ambitions.
So yes, I consider the outcome good.
It removed the noise. It clarified the boundaries. It left the work intact.
And that is all that ever mattered.
2/2
S. Tominaga, AKA CSW
Apr. 7, 2026
https://x.com/i/status/2041304361939480577
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/5251
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