Seems to me that the problem with Bitcoin is this. As it is, Bitcoin has a choice. Either it has to maintain small blocks, or it will bloat the entire Internet and communications network by its great blockchain size. Or it will have to figure out a way to scale. Why!
Bitcoin still transacts far less than fiat. Fiat transacts $5 trillion, daily, on the Forex alone. If anyone decentralized fiat in the same way that Bitcoin works, the encrypted decentralization would clog and overload the whole Internet. This is the threat that Bitcoin poses. It's a threat that would destroy Bitcoin and world trade at the same time.
It is true that Roger Ver and Jonald Fyookball are both trying to take a share of the market away from Bitcoin. The only thing that is keeping BCH from clogging the market is its small market share. BCH would destroy itself if it took over all the activity that goes on in Bitcoin, same as Bitcoin would if it increased its block size and its market share to that of fiat.
This is possibly the most important reason why anyone is trying to develop the Lightning Network. If the LN could actually be made to work, it would localize all kinds of BTC transactions, which would keep the main BTC blockchain from clogging the whole communications world... if BTC ever became the main world currency.
Possibly, behind the scenes, Bitcoin is the major reason for the 20,000 communication cubesats that are going to be placed into orbit around the Earth. It might also be the major reason for the development of 5G communications. All of it might have to do with world trade using Bitcoin... a thing that is impractical, now, because of our limited communication capabilities.
Think about it. Free world trade is more important than Bitcoin. Yet the simple-to-understand advantages that Bitcoin has, caused it to grow at a phenomenal rate... a rate that far surpassed any fiat growth, ever. The powers that be are jumping on the Bitcoin bandwagon. I might go even as far as stating that all the political antagonism in the developed world, is a smokescreen designed by BIG MONEY to keep eyes off the fact that communications are being developed basically to propagate Bitcoin secure world trade.
The results of this whole thing will be a one-world government. Roger Ver recognizes this. That's why he is trying so hard to make BCH the major player in the crypto world. I don't blame him for this. But his attempts at covering up what is really going on are extremely feeble.
Two of the major dangers in all of the above are:
1. The simple dangers of all the 5G and cubesat radiation that will gradually turn all life into microwave toast, over time;
2. That AI combined with the quantum computer will break Bitcoin blockchain encryption, and Bitcoin will become centralized. However, if this doesn't happen, there are always ways to manipulate markets, even when the transactions are secure. In fact, secure transactions are something Big Money is looking for; they are being ripped off by their bank employees. Big Money knows all there is to know about manipulating markets. Secure money is something that they want... namely Bitcoin.
I suspect that Satoshi understood all of this, especially after Bitcoin ran for its first year, and that is why he introduced the line of code that can be used to limit block size.
A curious point is, if Satoshi understood all this, was he really on the side of decentralization? Maybe he was introducing Bitcoin
because he understood that the current fiat world was moving way too slowly in its operations for making a one-world government. If this is the case, who in the world really is Satoshi?
