In 2026, the real threat to Bitcoin isn’t a ban—it’s the "Compliance Fork."

We are seeing more and more pools only mining "clean" transactions to stay compliant with global regulators. If this continues, we’ll end up with two Bitcoins: one that’s regulated, censored, and ETF-friendly, and one that remains truly sovereign but "tainted." As a developer, I’m building tools to bypass these chokepoints, but the math is getting harder. Is the dream of permissionless value dying in exchange for price action? If you can’t spend your BTC because it passed through the wrong node, it’s not Bitcoin anymore. It’s just a digital database with a central bank. What’s the move? Do we fight at the protocol level (BitVM) or just accept that "Sovereign BTC" will always trade at a discount to "Institutional BTC"?