Like that is 'really' what it will be used for. Instead of killing off political dissent and stopping movements like amelia before they get started.

Yes they do. When markets and Capitalism satisfy lower needs in the famous 'maslow's hierarchy of needs'. Peopl can turn to each other with less suspicion of them being a threat to these needs. It also helps when a society is more homogeneous culturally and racially because it gets past the primal 'us vs. them' tribalism our stone age brain runs on.

I'll simplify it.
The longer it runs, the more hard drive space the blockchain for bitcoin needs for you to participate.
due to the nature of bitcoin, nothing gets deleted from the blockchain. After all it's a permanent record of all your transactions. ie the basis of nft's and 'decentralized currency'
As the blockchain gets bigger, less and less will be willing to join in for the space required.
With less people, transaction times will go up.
Thus the value will go down, by a LOT.
Those who came in at the start will cash out before this happens, the rest will be holding the worthless bags. ie the definition of a ponzi scheme.

The entire thing was a ponzi scheme anyway.
I mean a blockchain/ledger that 'never has anything removed' and 'required to be on the network or have a wallet'.
Right now it's in the hundreds of gigs. mostly surpassing low priced 'physical wallets' due to the size and processing requirements.
Soon, sooner than you would like when it gets closer to the 1tb range. With ssd's not having the capacity growth that hdd's had and still have. Along with everyone mostly ditching hdd's People will be forced to drop participation, which in turn will slow transaction clearing time even more. It'll surpass many but the fanatics willingness to participate, many won't want near to over a terabyte of data on their computer dedicated this when it can be used for other things. The gig will be up, the price will plummet faster than an asteroid, and like all ponzi schemes those who came in not long after the start, get holding the bag.

Altering the behavior of bitcoin to sunset/delete block chain entries would do the same as it is the antithesis of the mythology built up around it.

By pumping out 20+ kids, starting as soon as they're of the legal age of the U.S. to have sex. With some rarely prosecuted cases of them forcing under age girls to start, after being put in an arranged marriage.

Then Draconian, with a capital D, disciplining and out right preventing exposure to anything else till their worldview is installed through Pavlov conditioning. I.E. install pstd levels of fear for even minor infractions of their religious views.

Doesn't matter that 15 out of the 20 flee between the early teenage years to 18 years of age. Bringing with them horror stories of beating even toddlers within an inch of their lives for simple infractions like talking when not spoken to, or saying no to their parents. I'm not talking about how people now overreact to a simple spanking. I'm talking being beaten black and blue till near broken bone levels of disciplining. Or the previously mentioned underage sex.

Their worldview and belief survive by stretching the absolute right of religious freedom of and from worship, to it's absolute limit by claiming this treatment is part of their flavor of religion. While i hate how they treat their kids and adults. Especially since they no longer 'need' to pump out 20+ kids because 15-18 will die from disease and accident, though they do have the right to choose this if they want. I am 'very' hesitant to even consider the concept of pulling the protection of that absolute right for fear of its emotionally charged and justified righteous fury against this treatment. Be it used by others to justify the removal of the right for lesser perceived infractions. Like Catholic vs Protestant, or more likely Christianity vs 'any' other religion and lack their of.

That there was a file system. AND A caching system with more or less the same name. Bcache and Bcachefs
The former being a way to semi speed up raid array's with a cache ssd.

No, surnames did not come from the religion, in Europe specificity it became necessary as the population boomed with the economy after the black death killed off the static social class system. Especially since families of lower classes could grow without the explicit approval of the land's nobility like the local Barron.
Before that, you were 'john of 'town's name''. Later that became 'John the 'smith'' because there were more than one John in the settlement and not all of them had the same profession. Not long after, smith just became a name and not a moniker of the person's profession they were born into.
Especially since not to long after this became necessary, the old 'everyone in your family worked in a smithy, so you can only work in one too'. Went away and the current idea of a person can choose and change what they worked as came about.

As for the Japanese side of things, any casual research from non western sources shows the opposite. The overwhelming majority of the public did not like this. They viewed it as western culture warriors 'trying' to imprint their ideals(specifically feminists) over Japanese culture and traditions. Marriages are considered a union if two families, not a separation of the children from their parents. The two partners are considered equal and in no way do the women feel 'oppressed' they can't keep their maiden name.

Don't worry, SystemD will copy it just like it copied the idea of svhost.exe of the pre-win10 days when it was a giant blob of minor process. And even if a minor one crashed, bluescreen. It's windows lite.