Math works better than middlemen - #Bitcoin Layer 2 explainer for ordinary people You trust your bank. But should you? Bitcoin wasn’t invented to make people rich - it was invented to solve a problem. In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, trust in the banking system collapsed. People saw how money could be printed endlessly, savings could be wiped out overnight, and institutions deemed "too big to fail" could gamble with the public’s future. Bitcoin was intended to offer something different: a monetary system with no central authority. No bailouts. No printing. Peer-to-peer transacting with rules enforced by math. It has been the fastest-growing trillion dollar asset in history, but here’s the catch: most people still use Bitcoin in a way that contradicts everything it was built for. They hand it over to exchanges, apps, or centralized services. They give up custody - just like depositing money in a bank - another trust model, which defeats the entire point. But conversely, holding Bitcoin in cold storage arguably also misses the mark. It wasn’t built just to sit idle and become another store-of-value for the rich. It was intended to be used - to transact, to settle debts, to create a financial system that ordinary people could rely on as an alternative to manipulated currencies and fragile banks. But so far it hasn’t lived up to the promise. #GOATNetwork was born to fix this. GOAT Network is a self-custodial financial layer that allows you to use your Bitcoin without ever giving it up to an intermediary. That means: 🔸You keep full custody of your #BTC. 🔸You can send transactions instantly and cheaply. 🔸You can earn yield securely and sustainably, or borrow against your BTC. Akin to banking infrastructure for Bitcoin, but secured by math and cryptography instead of middlemen. This is the future of finance. It might seem like the crypto space is one big confusing mess. In many ways, it is. But another way to see it is as a vast global experiment: thousands of projects attempting to create a new financial system and internet economy, all testing what works and what doesn’t. Different chains, apps, and ideas - most of them forgettable, a few of them important. And now, for the first time, the best parts of that experimentation are converging back to where it all started - and where it all belongs - Bitcoin. GOAT Network is the epitome of that convergence. Bitcoin can be considered as the world’s new money - pristine, finite, self-sovereign. GOAT Network is how you use it - and grow it - without handing it over to the equivalent of banks and gatekeepers. Just you, your money, and a financial network secured by math and cryptography. This is what crypto was always meant to be.