I was asking the wrong question at first. Reading about Trustless Bitcoin Vaults (TBV), my attention went straight to onchain fees. They're visible, easy to measure, and they seem like the obvious scaling limit. Except it wasn't. But something didn't add up. Fair enough, the fees were already minimal. That still didn't explain why the scaling question remained. I kept circling back to that before I realized I was looking at the wrong layer. That's the part I missed at first. The problem isn't what Bitcoin sees. It's what Bitcoin structurally can't see. And that's easy to miss. Turns out, that was the more interesting part. BitVM3 keeps onchain fees low. But someone still has to carry the proof through the verification path while Bitcoin only checks the outcome. Then it hit me. Minimal overhead isn't about removing a cost. It's about moving it somewhere else. At least to me, BABE changes that tradeoff by reducing offchain cost enough to widen who can realistically participate as a verifier. That changed the way I think about Bitcoin systems. That's the part that stayed with me. Complexity rarely disappears. It usually ends up somewhere outside the chain.
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