100% - Name Me One Let me put something to you, and I want …

100% - Name Me One
Let me put something to you, and I want you to really try to answer it, because I have tried and I cannot.
Name me one foundational invention that we still use today in its original, unimproved form.
The first car. The first aeroplane. The first computer. The first telephone. The first email server. The first camera. Go down the whole list of things that changed the world, and every single one of them was the start of a line, not the end of it. We kept what it did. We improved how it did it. The Wright brothers got us off the ground, and thank God for them, but nobody is flying across the Atlantic on the Wright Flyer. The first motor car got us moving, but you are not dropping your kids at school in it.
That is the law of every tool mankind has ever built. The function survives. The thing itself gets better, over and over, forever.
So here is my honest question. Why would money be the one exception? Why, of all the technology in human history, would the very first version of a thing be the sacred one, the finished one, the one that can never be touched or improved? That has never been true of anything else we have ever made. Not once.
And that is really all I am saying about the coin I use. I am not calling it the new Bitcoin. I am saying it is Bitcoin with the improvement that Bitcoin itself was missing, the privacy that Satoshi actually wanted but the cryptography of the day could not give him. It is not a betrayal of the idea. It is the idea, finished.
Now let me deal with the two clever pushbacks before someone brings them, because I have thought about both.
Somebody will say, ah, but some things do not change. Look at the way computers send data in little packets. That idea has held since the 1970s. And they are half right. But here is the thing. Even that has been improved under the bonnet, constantly, for fifty years, and the world is right now quietly replacing it with newer and faster versions because even that was not good enough. So the one example people reach for to prove things never change is itself a perfect example of a thing that has been improved again and again. It does not break my point. It proves it.
The second pushback is the deep one, and it is worth getting right. In mathematics, you can prove something is true forever. That there are infinitely many prime numbers was proven thousands of years ago and it will be true for all eternity. That never needs improving, because it is a truth, not a tool.
But here is the blade. Bitcoin is not a mathematical truth. It is an engineering product. And engineering products are never finished and frozen. They are built, tested, broken, fixed, and improved without end. So when people tell me the protocol is set in stone, fixed forever, perfect and done, they are treating an engineering product as if it were a mathematical proof. That is the mistake. You freeze a theorem. You never freeze a machine. A machine that stops improving is not perfect. It is just abandoned.
And if someone says, but your coin had a bug once. Good. Let me ask you something. Why do you think we improve anything? The car was improved because the early ones were dangerous. The aeroplane was improved because the early ones fell out of the sky. Your washing machine, your camera, the phone in your hand right now, all of it got better precisely because the first versions had faults and somebody fixed them. A thing that gets its faults found and fixed is not a weak thing. It is a living thing. The dead ones are the ones nobody is allowed to touch.
So that is where I stand, and let me finish with the most honest part of all.
I am not anybody's enemy here. I am not praying for any coin to fail. Nobody on this earth would be happier than me to be proven completely wrong. But I have a life. I have a business. I have bills that land every single month whether the dream comes true or not. And my bills cannot wait until it all sorts itself out one fine day. So I went and found something I can use, right now, in the meantime. That is not bitterness. That is just a working man being responsible.
Everything that has ever mattered got improved. Money will be no different. I just decided not to wait.
Name me one invention we never improved. I will wait.
Build thinkers, not followers.
Let us ponder this full well.