Real adoption requires businesses to know that the rules they build upon today will remain the rules tomorrow.

You cannot create global economic infrastructure when developers, committees and social-media factions can repeatedly reinterpret the protocol. Every rule change transfers power away from users and towards the people coordinating that change. It makes long-term investment conditional upon politics.

BTC supporters need to understand that restricting Bitcoin did not decentralise it. Limiting transaction capacity restricted who could use the network directly. As fees increased and ordinary payments became uneconomic, users were pushed towards exchanges, custodians, payment channels, wrapped assets and other intermediaries.

That recreates the system Bitcoin was designed to overcome.

A restricted network may support speculation, but it cannot support billions of people making everyday payments, businesses exchanging invoices, machines purchasing data, or applications processing enormous volumes of low-value transactions.

Bitcoin adoption must therefore follow a different path: fixed base rules, unlimited competitive scaling, direct peer-to-peer transactions, SPV proofs for users and increasingly efficient processing by professional nodes.

The protocol must be stable while everything built above it competes and evolves.

Applications can change. Wallets can change. Node software can improve. Businesses can fail and be replaced. What cannot continually change is the underlying rule system upon which property, contracts and investment depend.

Bitcoin should not manufacture scarcity in transaction capacity. Its scarcity lies in the transferable units and their traceable chain of ownership. Capacity should expand with demand, technology and investment.

If Bitcoin is to become the plumbing of global commerce, it must be predictable, inexpensive and capable of disappearing into ordinary applications. People should use it without needing to understand block sizes, fee markets or developer politics.

That is the adoption path: not forcing users into new intermediaries, but allowing them to exchange value directly under rules nobody controls.