> It's not that much of a minority opinion, it's shared by all Bitcoin maximalists That's perhaps the least useful pejorative ever invented. It's been a trivi

> It's not that much of a minority opinion, it's shared by all Bitcoin maximalists That's perhaps the least useful pejorative ever invented. It's been a trivial observation from the start that if your problem is adequately solved by payment service backed with a traditional database then that will always have lower operating costs. (This does not mean blockchains are useless, but that there is a natural limit to their usefulness.) Lately that's enough to get you branded as a "Bitcoin maximalist", which is more than a little bit silly.