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Fair point. Many religions back you up. Christianity and Islam and Hinduism have remade the world. If we want to pursue Bitcoin adoption in the same manner as religions, perhaps we will similarly succeed.
I'd prefer to pursue adoption along the lines of technical innovations like automobiles, the internet, and smart phones. People didn't need to promote these things for ideological reasons. People chose to adopt them because they found it useful. I'm sure I'm looking at things with rose colored glasses here, but I'm of the opinion that bitcoin needs to win because it's undeniably better -- and I think that happens when people adopt it because it's the best way to achieve their goals.
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For me, it's not that I think Bitcoiners should be ideologically pushing Bitcoin adoption so much as I think they should be avoiding the dollar with a religious-like passion.
It's their comfortable relationship with fiat, while simultaneously talking about how bad it is... that is what pisses me off the most. I think if we really believed what we preach, we would be creating small, Amish-like communities with Bitcoin circular economies and we would go out of our way to use fiat as little as possible.
I want to see a religious-like "jihad" against the dollar. Bitcoin just becomes the obvious choice for money when we refuse to use dollars. Or maybe we can try something like Goldbacks, I dunno. Just stop using dollars, mmkay? And stop giving me lip-service about taxes, greshham's law, and trojan horses. You're just making excuses to be lazy. That shit's just noise. STOP USING DOLLARS. It's a simple goal to strive for, and I'm not seeing much of it in this community.
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I think if we really believed what we preach, we would be creating small, Amish-like communities with Bitcoin circular economies
Ask your Uber driver if he has a Lightning wallet. I have... many times and there isn't one who knows what it is.
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Yes. It is just not anywhere near being on many people's radar. Other stuff works well enough for them -- or at least so they seem to feel.
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