BTC is the native token of the Bitcoin protocol

The utility of BTC is twofold: ● Miner rewards: The protocol emits BTC and distributes it to protocol validators, aka miners; ● Transaction fees: Users pay fees in BTC for every transaction, which prevents spam and provides additional incentives for miners. One advantage of the BTC design is a deterministic, i.e. predictable supply. Normally, tokens with deterministic supply are more attractive to holders and can capture value better than those with non-deterministic supply. We consider BTC a legacy token design and we argue its disadvantages are multifold: ● It is an unproductive asset, it does not give its holders any meaningful role in the protocol nor the incentives to performs such a role; ● It does not leverage the opportunity to require stake in the native token for protocol validators and instead requires them to stake, i.e. invest external resources (mining equipment and electricity), thus making protocol less resilient and self-sustainable; ● It gradually reduces emission for mining rewards until it reaches zero, which introduces sustainability and security concerns (it is unclear if the security can be maintained once the emission rate becomes low or reaches zero); ● It does not introduce any type of economic support to the ecosystem; ● It does not give any governance rights to holders, although it can be argued that Layer 1 protocols such as Bitcoin should not utilize tokens for governance.