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by coralreef 1671 days ago
Peer to peer money (low transaction cost, high scalability) is not immediately possible without tradeoffs to decentralization.

You can increase block sizes to a degree, but that threatens decentralization by making it difficult/expensive for nodes to sync and store the chain.

We have an experiment called Bitcoin Cash and endless other forks promising low fees, but adoption has not followed.