My goal has always been brutally simple. To build a system capable of 1 billion transactions per second—at today’s computational level, and engineered to grow along the natural curve of Moore’s Law, doubling every eighteen months until even the concept of limitation becomes archaic. That’s not ambition; that’s inevitability correctly understood. Bitcoin was never meant to crawl. It was designed to ascend—to expand until it could sustain the full commercial breath of humanity, every contract, every payment, every data exchange, all verified, immutable, and instantaneous.
Those who think such scale impossible are the same breed who once said computers would never fit on desks or that the internet would never carry video. Their failure of imagination is not my concern. The laws of physics and computation are not their toys. They bend to engineering, to precision, to persistence. That is what I am building—a system that doesn’t shatter under success but strengthens with it.
I’ll retire when it’s done. Not when it’s fashionable, not when it’s profitable, but when it’s complete—when the network hums with the quiet, unstoppable efficiency of a machine that no longer needs its maker. Until then, I work.