The entire problem in blockchain is not technical. It is psychological.
People do not want responsibility. They want a leader. They want a villain. They want someone to worship when price goes up and someone to blame when it goes down. They do not want to build, compete, market, sell, and deliver. They want the coin to rise while they sit still, and then they want to call that “community.”
So they invent mythology. Ethereum gets its geek priesthood. Bitcoin gets endless arguments about who should be Satoshi. If they cannot have a god, they manufacture resentment. If they cannot control the protocol, they try to control the narrative. If they cannot build anything useful, they demand rule changes so they can feel relevant.
That is the perverse part. They keep trying to turn a protocol into a personality cult.
Bitcoin does not need leaders. It needs rules. Fixed rules. Stable rules. Predictable rules. A protocol is not a company and it is not a political party. It does not need a chairman, a committee, or a philosopher king. It needs to remain set so people can build on top of it without wondering which self-appointed genius will “improve” it next quarter.
Companies need leaders. Teams need leaders. Projects need leaders. They compete with each other in the market. They compete on service, reliability, cost, performance, and execution. They do not compete by rewriting the protocol every time they lose an argument.
That is the distinction people keep missing. The protocol is fixed. The businesses are not. The protocol is neutral. The companies are not. The protocol does not care who you are. The market does.
So no, Bitcoin does not need a god. It does not need a priesthood. It does not need a hero to bless every transaction. It needs people to stop behaving like entitled children and start behaving like adults.
Build something. Sell it. Support it. Compete.
If society wants it, it survives. If it does not, it dies.
That is personal responsibility. That is capitalism. That is the point.
Here is something that will no doubt offend the right sort of people: I rather like not being Satoshi. Whether you approve of that formulation is your problem, not mine. What matters is the life that follows from it, and that life is immeasurably better than the endless theatre, projection, worship, resentment, and infantile need people had to turn everything into a cult of personality.
I do not miss the adoration. I do not crave your reverence. I do not wake in the morning yearning to be the object of yet another man’s ideological dependency. Quite the opposite. If anything, that nonsense was among the worst parts of it all. So for those who still feel the urge to genuflect, to mythologise, to attach themselves to me as though I were some secular saint of the protocol—piss off.
My life now is far simpler, and far better. I research. I build. I study. I live well with my wife. I pursue the things that matter, and I do so without the constant background hum of people who confuse admiration with entitlement and attention with significance. It is a much finer arrangement.
What has not changed is the work. I set a goal, and I have been pursuing it consistently: scale Bitcoin properly. Not as a slogan, not as an aesthetic, not as a debating point for men who contribute nothing and call it commentary, but as an engineering and economic reality. That remains the task.
If you dislike that, wonderful. Start a company. Build a competing service. Offer something the market wants more. Compete like an adult in a capitalist system. That is what businesses are for.
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S. Tominaga, AKA CSW
Apr. 7, 2026
https://x.com/i/status/2041304361939480577
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/5251
People do not want responsibility. They want a leader. They want a villain. They want someone to worship when price goes up and someone to blame when it goes down. They do not want to build, compete, market, sell, and deliver. They want the coin to rise while they sit still, and then they want to call that “community.”
So they invent mythology. Ethereum gets its geek priesthood. Bitcoin gets endless arguments about who should be Satoshi. If they cannot have a god, they manufacture resentment. If they cannot control the protocol, they try to control the narrative. If they cannot build anything useful, they demand rule changes so they can feel relevant.
That is the perverse part. They keep trying to turn a protocol into a personality cult.
Bitcoin does not need leaders. It needs rules. Fixed rules. Stable rules. Predictable rules. A protocol is not a company and it is not a political party. It does not need a chairman, a committee, or a philosopher king. It needs to remain set so people can build on top of it without wondering which self-appointed genius will “improve” it next quarter.
Companies need leaders. Teams need leaders. Projects need leaders. They compete with each other in the market. They compete on service, reliability, cost, performance, and execution. They do not compete by rewriting the protocol every time they lose an argument.
That is the distinction people keep missing. The protocol is fixed. The businesses are not. The protocol is neutral. The companies are not. The protocol does not care who you are. The market does.
So no, Bitcoin does not need a god. It does not need a priesthood. It does not need a hero to bless every transaction. It needs people to stop behaving like entitled children and start behaving like adults.
Build something. Sell it. Support it. Compete.
If society wants it, it survives. If it does not, it dies.
That is personal responsibility. That is capitalism. That is the point.
Here is something that will no doubt offend the right sort of people: I rather like not being Satoshi. Whether you approve of that formulation is your problem, not mine. What matters is the life that follows from it, and that life is immeasurably better than the endless theatre, projection, worship, resentment, and infantile need people had to turn everything into a cult of personality.
I do not miss the adoration. I do not crave your reverence. I do not wake in the morning yearning to be the object of yet another man’s ideological dependency. Quite the opposite. If anything, that nonsense was among the worst parts of it all. So for those who still feel the urge to genuflect, to mythologise, to attach themselves to me as though I were some secular saint of the protocol—piss off.
My life now is far simpler, and far better. I research. I build. I study. I live well with my wife. I pursue the things that matter, and I do so without the constant background hum of people who confuse admiration with entitlement and attention with significance. It is a much finer arrangement.
What has not changed is the work. I set a goal, and I have been pursuing it consistently: scale Bitcoin properly. Not as a slogan, not as an aesthetic, not as a debating point for men who contribute nothing and call it commentary, but as an engineering and economic reality. That remains the task.
If you dislike that, wonderful. Start a company. Build a competing service. Offer something the market wants more. Compete like an adult in a capitalist system. That is what businesses are for.
1/2
S. Tominaga, AKA CSW
Apr. 7, 2026
https://x.com/i/status/2041304361939480577
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/5251
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