I ran into an old friend at a coffee shop. He used to be one of those typical 'Ethereum players,' always shouting 'L2 is the future.' But during our chat, he suddenly dropped this line: 'I’ve recently started looking into BitScaler on Bitcoin.' I was stunned for a moment, thinking, when did this guy turn conservative? Then he said: 'It’s not that I’ve gone conservative, it’s that I realized Bitcoin doesn’t need to follow Ethereum’s playbook. @PortaltoBitcoin’s BitScaler is directly scaling Bitcoin into a global financial layer. Things like treasuries, insurance, derivatives, and prediction markets can all run natively on Bitcoin itself, and it’s still non-custodial.' That’s when I understood—he hasn’t backed down; he’s just shifted directions. Bitcoin’s security and decentralization are like the 'foundation of an old city,' and BitScaler is essentially building a new financial skyscraper on the most solid ground. To put it simply, Ethereum’s DeFi feels like a 'glamorous shopping mall,' but BitScaler aims to be a 'stable central bank + financial district.' Two completely different ecosystems—one is flashy, the other is weighty. On my way home, I kept thinking: if this really works, we might see an entirely new financial ecosystem on BTC in the future, offering a completely different landscape from ETH and SOL.