Bitcoin has a lot of strange features or flaws, depending on viewpoint, that many people seem to blow off. Right now, for instance, the entire network can only

Bitcoin has a lot of strange features or flaws, depending on viewpoint, that many people seem to blow off. Right now, for instance, the entire network can only support something like 10 transactions per second. That's clearly not going scale. Also, the much-touted microtransactions are unlikely to really make any sense with onchain transactions due to miner fees, which will eventually become commonplace as an incentive to mining as the block rewards become smaller and smaller and the difficulty increases. As a result, offchain providers are becoming more popular, which for many of us seems to defeat the entire point of bitcoin--it reintroduces trusted third parties.