The alternative was to keep network effect and not being able to use it or scale the network effect?
No, the alternative is to scale but make as many meaningful improvements as possible instead of competing for being "the real Bitcoin"
Yea, I agree that the "the real Bitcoin" narrative, while kinda true, is not really something anyone cares about and it is not esp. productive either. Esp. not wrt. new users.
Indeed. Nobody cares about "the real Bitcoin". People care about actual P2P Internet Currency that can't be controlled by any government.
No surveillance coin is worth a shit for this.
Btw. Jonathan from General Protocols puts it quite aptly here:
