Satoshi designed Bitcoin to handle Visa-level traffic
A handful of developers capped BTC at 7 transactions per second and called it "digital gold."
That's not a technical limitation. That's a business decision; made by people who profit from congestion.
Every $10 fee you pay to move $100? Someone's getting rich. Lightning doesn't fix this. It adds middlemen to a system designed to eliminate them.
Whitepaper. Page one. Line one: 👉"Peer-to-peer electronic cash."👈
So why did exchanges delist it?
Because Bitcoin that works as money makes $4B/year in BTC fees obsolete overnight. Here's the thing: millions of tiny fees add up to more than the block reward. That's the real model: miners earning from volume, not artificial scarcity!
They didn't protect you from a scam. They protected a revenue stream.
The gatekeepers locked the door. We built a new gate.