The simplification of Bitcoin's protocol should be always our aim because of that - there should be high barriers for introducing complexity into!
BTW, IMO Bitcoin Cash was forked from Bticoin SW (BTC) exactly becuase of my points above.
An ideal protocol is that simple, that it needs not much maintenance / changes on the long run. That keeps many client impls runing most safly on top.
Simple code is easier to scale and invites more paricipants to compete > leads to higher decentralization.
Keep it simple: Simple protocols have many advantages over complex ones. Better adoption because more devs can build on, and its better to understand = safer, less bugs!
Can we have here ideas about how we think what the Bitcoin Protocol should have and why? I like to start with very simple requirements first, like: Keep it simple ?
Manny of us think of bottom up adoption, but there is a huge gap to the top down. Let's fill it...
