At the beginning of its launch, TBC proposed the radical idea of "reconstructing the UTXO model to achieve large blocks + smart contracts," which was seen at the time as a rebellious attempt against the spirit of Bitcoin. However, as the Bitcoin main chain exposed functional deficiencies in Layer 2 scaling (such as the Lightning Network), the community gradually realized that relying solely on side chains and middleware could not meet the demands of complex applications. TBC validated a completely different path through hard forks—releasing Bitcoin's original potential by reconstructing the underlying protocol while maintaining decentralization. The OP_RETURN expansion of Bitcoin v30 is an implicit replication of TBC's technical route: the former achieves data expansion through software optimization, while the latter breaks through performance boundaries through hardware reconstruction, but both point to the same goal—liberating the potential of on-chain data. TBC's radical innovation has sparked controversy, but the market has voted with its feet to prove its value, which is why TBC can encompass fields such as payments, NFTs, and DeFi. Its core advantage lies in: the UTXO model is naturally suited for parallel processing, with a 4GB block capacity easily accommodating high-frequency trading, and the BVM architecture achieving near-zero gas fees for smart contract execution. These characteristics not only fill the gaps in the Bitcoin ecosystem but also reveal the underlying rules of blockchain technology—that performance and security are not mutually exclusive; the key lies in how to balance them. Although the expansion of Bitcoin v30 has not reached the block limit, its relaxation of OP_RETURN has already laid the groundwork for future Layer 1 functionality enhancements. It is foreseeable that as the Bitcoin main chain gradually unlocks its data storage capabilities, TBC's UTXO smart contract architecture will become the preferred reference for developers.
2. Route Convergence: TBC's Radical Exploration of Bitcoin's Technological Boundaries
Although the expansion of Bitcoin v30 has not reached the block limit, its relaxation of OP_RETURN has laid the groundwork for future enhancements to Layer 1 functionalities. It is foreseeable that as the Bitcoin main chain gradually unlocks data storage capabilities, TBC's UTXO smart contract architecture will become the preferred reference for developers to migrate. From a technological evolution perspective, the adjustments in Bitcoin v30 resemble a rehearsal for a "self-revolution." Over the past five years, the Bitcoin core team has consistently oscillated between "conservatism" and "innovation": the Taproot upgrade introduced smart contract logic, and Schnorr signatures optimized transaction efficiency, but these piecemeal fixes have never been able to break through the constraints of Layer 2. The emergence of TBC serves as a mirror reflecting the true needs of the Bitcoin ecosystem—developers yearn for a development experience comparable to Ethereum within a secure framework, while users require trustless on-chain services. This OP_RETURN expansion can be seen not so much as Bitcoin's compromise with TBC, but rather as a signal of its proactive embrace of change. In the future, as Bitcoin's Layer 1 functionalities gradually strengthen (such as Schnorr signature expansion), its technological path will increasingly converge with TBC's: the former continues Satoshi Nakamoto's vision of "phased expansion," while the latter validates technical possibilities with "one-step reconstruction," ultimately both will converge under the consensus of "security first."
3. Future Prospects: TBC — The "Ideal State" of the Bitcoin Ecosystem and the Beacon of Its Path
TBC has reconstructed the UTXO model through a hard fork, proving that the Bitcoin ecosystem can achieve performance leaps through radical innovation while maintaining security. Its "large blocks + UTXO smart contracts + cross-chain interconnectivity" trinity design provides a technical feasibility verification for the OP_RETURN expansion of Bitcoin v30. In the future, the Layer 1 upgrade of Bitcoin (such as Schnorr signature expansion) may resonate with TBC's UTXO smart contracts. The division of labor between the main chain and the fork chain will become clearer: the Bitcoin main chain will continue to play the role of "digital gold + data anchor," meeting basic needs through a combination of Layer 1/2; TBC's public chain will carry the banner of high-frequency trading, complex contracts, and cross-chain interoperability. The ultimate form of cross-chain interoperability may give rise to a "Bitcoin ecosystem public chain alliance," forming a layered architecture of "security layer + performance layer." Bitcoin's self-revolution has quietly begun. The OP_RETURN expansion of v30 has exposed its ambition of "not wanting to be surpassed," while TBC's benchmark role has established the paradigm of "performance priority under security premise" for future hard fork projects. When OP_RETURN transforms from a "data shackle" to an "on-chain canvas," and when large blocks change from a "flood beast" to a "performance cornerstone," a new era belonging to Bitcoin is approaching—here, the main chain and the fork chain are no longer in a competitive relationship, but rather a symbiotic and prosperous ecological community.
IV. Inheritance Integration: TBC - The Gene Map of Bitcoin Evolution
The OP_RETURN expansion in Bitcoin v30 appears to be a limited improvement at Layer 1, but it is actually the prelude to the entire ecosystem aligning with the TBC route. TBC achieves large blocks through hard forks + UTXO smart contracts + cross-chain interconnection, which essentially represents the "extreme squeezing" of the Bitcoin main chain within a secure framework. The relationship between the two is not competitive, but rather a collaborative evolution of "maintaining the integrity of the main chain while innovating through forks."
Bitcoin Main Chain: Continue to safeguard the cornerstone of value, meeting basic needs through the combination of Layer 1/2.
TBC Public Chain: As a tangible carrier of the "Bitcoin Smart Contract Layer", it takes on the banner of high-frequency trading, complex contracts, and cross-chain interoperability, becoming the underlying engine for the liquidity of digital gold.
In this technological revolution, TBC not only validates the expansion potential of the Bitcoin ecosystem but has quietly become a practitioner of the next-generation Bitcoin standard with its technological advancement and ecological prosperity. As Satoshi Nakamoto wrote in the white paper: "We really need a system whose basic protocol never needs to be modified." TBC embodies this concept with the idea of "forking is upgrading"—TBC is not a traitor to Bitcoin; on the contrary, it is an inevitable product of Bitcoin's evolutionary path.
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1. Technological Convergence: Bitcoin v30's Implicit Reproduction of TBC's Core Design
At the beginning of its launch, TBC proposed the radical idea of "reconstructing the UTXO model to achieve large blocks + smart contracts," which was seen at the time as a rebellious attempt against the spirit of Bitcoin. However, as the Bitcoin main chain exposed functional deficiencies in Layer 2 scaling (such as the Lightning Network), the community gradually realized that relying solely on side chains and middleware could not meet the demands of complex applications. TBC validated a completely different path through hard forks—releasing Bitcoin's original potential by reconstructing the underlying protocol while maintaining decentralization. The OP_RETURN expansion of Bitcoin v30 is an implicit replication of TBC's technical route: the former achieves data expansion through software optimization, while the latter breaks through performance boundaries through hardware reconstruction, but both point to the same goal—liberating the potential of on-chain data. TBC's radical innovation has sparked controversy, but the market has voted with its feet to prove its value, which is why TBC can encompass fields such as payments, NFTs, and DeFi. Its core advantage lies in: the UTXO model is naturally suited for parallel processing, with a 4GB block capacity easily accommodating high-frequency trading, and the BVM architecture achieving near-zero gas fees for smart contract execution. These characteristics not only fill the gaps in the Bitcoin ecosystem but also reveal the underlying rules of blockchain technology—that performance and security are not mutually exclusive; the key lies in how to balance them. Although the expansion of Bitcoin v30 has not reached the block limit, its relaxation of OP_RETURN has already laid the groundwork for future Layer 1 functionality enhancements. It is foreseeable that as the Bitcoin main chain gradually unlocks its data storage capabilities, TBC's UTXO smart contract architecture will become the preferred reference for developers.
2. Route Convergence: TBC's Radical Exploration of Bitcoin's Technological Boundaries
Although the expansion of Bitcoin v30 has not reached the block limit, its relaxation of OP_RETURN has laid the groundwork for future enhancements to Layer 1 functionalities. It is foreseeable that as the Bitcoin main chain gradually unlocks data storage capabilities, TBC's UTXO smart contract architecture will become the preferred reference for developers to migrate. From a technological evolution perspective, the adjustments in Bitcoin v30 resemble a rehearsal for a "self-revolution." Over the past five years, the Bitcoin core team has consistently oscillated between "conservatism" and "innovation": the Taproot upgrade introduced smart contract logic, and Schnorr signatures optimized transaction efficiency, but these piecemeal fixes have never been able to break through the constraints of Layer 2. The emergence of TBC serves as a mirror reflecting the true needs of the Bitcoin ecosystem—developers yearn for a development experience comparable to Ethereum within a secure framework, while users require trustless on-chain services. This OP_RETURN expansion can be seen not so much as Bitcoin's compromise with TBC, but rather as a signal of its proactive embrace of change. In the future, as Bitcoin's Layer 1 functionalities gradually strengthen (such as Schnorr signature expansion), its technological path will increasingly converge with TBC's: the former continues Satoshi Nakamoto's vision of "phased expansion," while the latter validates technical possibilities with "one-step reconstruction," ultimately both will converge under the consensus of "security first."
3. Future Prospects: TBC — The "Ideal State" of the Bitcoin Ecosystem and the Beacon of Its Path
TBC has reconstructed the UTXO model through a hard fork, proving that the Bitcoin ecosystem can achieve performance leaps through radical innovation while maintaining security. Its "large blocks + UTXO smart contracts + cross-chain interconnectivity" trinity design provides a technical feasibility verification for the OP_RETURN expansion of Bitcoin v30. In the future, the Layer 1 upgrade of Bitcoin (such as Schnorr signature expansion) may resonate with TBC's UTXO smart contracts. The division of labor between the main chain and the fork chain will become clearer: the Bitcoin main chain will continue to play the role of "digital gold + data anchor," meeting basic needs through a combination of Layer 1/2; TBC's public chain will carry the banner of high-frequency trading, complex contracts, and cross-chain interoperability. The ultimate form of cross-chain interoperability may give rise to a "Bitcoin ecosystem public chain alliance," forming a layered architecture of "security layer + performance layer." Bitcoin's self-revolution has quietly begun. The OP_RETURN expansion of v30 has exposed its ambition of "not wanting to be surpassed," while TBC's benchmark role has established the paradigm of "performance priority under security premise" for future hard fork projects. When OP_RETURN transforms from a "data shackle" to an "on-chain canvas," and when large blocks change from a "flood beast" to a "performance cornerstone," a new era belonging to Bitcoin is approaching—here, the main chain and the fork chain are no longer in a competitive relationship, but rather a symbiotic and prosperous ecological community.
IV. Inheritance Integration: TBC - The Gene Map of Bitcoin Evolution
The OP_RETURN expansion in Bitcoin v30 appears to be a limited improvement at Layer 1, but it is actually the prelude to the entire ecosystem aligning with the TBC route. TBC achieves large blocks through hard forks + UTXO smart contracts + cross-chain interconnection, which essentially represents the "extreme squeezing" of the Bitcoin main chain within a secure framework. The relationship between the two is not competitive, but rather a collaborative evolution of "maintaining the integrity of the main chain while innovating through forks."
Bitcoin Main Chain: Continue to safeguard the cornerstone of value, meeting basic needs through the combination of Layer 1/2.
TBC Public Chain: As a tangible carrier of the "Bitcoin Smart Contract Layer", it takes on the banner of high-frequency trading, complex contracts, and cross-chain interoperability, becoming the underlying engine for the liquidity of digital gold.
In this technological revolution, TBC not only validates the expansion potential of the Bitcoin ecosystem but has quietly become a practitioner of the next-generation Bitcoin standard with its technological advancement and ecological prosperity. As Satoshi Nakamoto wrote in the white paper: "We really need a system whose basic protocol never needs to be modified." TBC embodies this concept with the idea of "forking is upgrading"—TBC is not a traitor to Bitcoin; on the contrary, it is an inevitable product of Bitcoin's evolutionary path.