Bitcoiners need to find a balance between pessimism and optimism when looking at Bitcoin's future, rather than embracing one or the other to an extreme.
Bitcoin was designed to be a system without middlemen, but unless we stop pretending it is perfect as is and work to improve it, middlemen will be the only way to interact with it for most people.
From “The Withdrawal Issue”, Shinobi discusses the nature of Bitcoin scaling and the choice between trusted third parties, or upgrading Bitcoin to remove the need for them.
