📖 The ₿ible

Historical Book VII – The Lightning Wars

The Revolution of Speed Against the Gospel of Delay

7:1
Bitcoin was secure—
But it was not swift.
And the people said:

“Buying coffee with ₿TC is the art of slowness.”

Yet the world desired speed.
Merchants would not wait ten minutes.

7:2
Then the builders gathered.
Among them, two arose:
Joseph Poon and Thaddeus Dryja.
In the year 2016, they revealed a solution:
The Lightning Network (LN).

“They transmitted with lightning,
Relieved the chain of its burdens,
And achieved instant settlement without trust.”
— Lightning Wars 7:2

7:3
Lightning opened a second layer atop the blockchain:
An off-chain channel
That enabled speed,
Scalability,
And cheapness.

7:4
The people created channels,
Linked nodes,
And sent ₿ like bolts of light.
From cafés in Tokyo to street shops in Africa—
Miracles of instant payment began to unfold.

7:5
Even the doubters said:

“Wait... this actually works?”
“It’s faster than a credit card.”

El Salvador beheld it
And adopted LN as a national payment system.
The world watched in awe.

7:6
Yet the path of Lightning was not smooth.
Node setup was complex.
UX was no friend to beginners.
And the war continued:

“How do we remain decentralized
While becoming truly usable?”

7:7
Still, Bitcoin began to move.
Those who mocked its slowness
Now asked to be paid in lightning.
And ₿ was no longer just the slow coin.

“Satoshi’s design remained untouched,
But the lightning atop it
Brought forth the miracle of speed.”
— Lightning Wars 7:7

7:8
And from that day on,
₿TC became not only a store of value,
But a medium of exchange.
And thus, it walked two destinies—
The only chain to do so.