The proposal to temporarily restrict arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions lacks economic nodes, protocol developers, and hashrate. History from the 2017 UASF shows nodes succeed only with broad investor and developer weight behind them.
The U.S. military is actively running a Bitcoin node and testing the protocol’s cryptographic architecture as a tool for securing and protecting networks, according to INDOPACOM commander Admiral Samuel Paparo.
FutureBit’s vision is decentralized mining with full nodes and home mining, disrupting Big Mining. Their flagship product, Apollo II, has sold 100,000 units.