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All these challenges highlighted a persistent pattern: capacity is always insufficient in the face of innovation, but humans adapt and upgrade infrastructure continuously, often in elegant ways.
The Internet’s Continuous Scaling and Bitcoin
Antonopoulos explained that this pattern of capacity constraints and scalable solutions repeats with each new use case—email replacing Usenet, multimedia content straining networks, high-definition videos and VR pushing limits, and now Bitcoin facing similar challenges.
He emphasizes that capacity is never fully “satisfied”—it is a moving target. As new applications emerge, demand grows, prompting infrastructure upgrades and new solutions, which then become the new baseline. This “capacity satisfaction” is a dynamic state, not a fixed goal.