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100 sats \ 5 replies \ @Murch 10h \ on: Are you really a Bitcoiner? bitcoin_beginners
You're projecting your personal philosophy on all bitcoiners in what amounts to a True Scotsman fallacy. Meh.
Real Bitcoiners post at least one question or answer on Bitcoin Stack Exchange every day!!!1
See what I did there?
The protocol was created to enable P2P payments.
The protocol is being captured and controlled by the fiat operators as a speculative commodity, KYCed, taxed and increasingly custodied by bankers and other corporate slime.
If you do not understand this you probably have not read and understood the white paper and are definitely falling for the speculative commodity capture and control narrative that degrades Bitcoin into a harmless plaything for bankers and governments and that decapitates the revolutionary P2P MoE intent that is explicit in the white paper.
Read the white paper and consider what has been done to the protocol since by the sly fiat operators.
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Control of the narrative is 90% of market capture and control...and they have achieved it without you even seeing it!
Sly.
I gave the largest example above- others are the debanking of businesses who accept bitcoin, the 70% of humanity who live under authoritarian governments who mostly OUTRIGHT ban MoE use and perhaps most importantly the capture of the narrative by people touting Bitcoin as a (kyced and CG taxed) speculative commodity and so it is thus seen and used as a speculative commodity not a MoE.
The suits and ETFs are pushing this narrative and the obstructive and effectively impracticable tax obligations of MoE use reinforces it- to use Bitcoin as a MoE lawfully is effectively impractical due to the tax obligations attached to it via designation as a speculative commodity.
Fuck all Bitcoin is now held with the intent to use as a P2P MoE- ETFs expressly and explicitly prevent such use and Treasuries do also.
If you dont get it now ok- you don't want to get it...they have captured and controlled your perception and its evident.
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I've seen the "true Scottsman" argument brought against any and every attempt to claim "Bitcoiner", but I reject it as do many others for a reason I'll try to explain simply.
Imagine if you will a marketeer who claims to be a sports fan because they sell merchandise of a sports team.
"But do you know who the quarterback is?"
"Do you watch the game?"
"Do you even know what the rules of the game are"
And that's not to say someone who doesn't watch the game, know the quarterback, or even the rules of football can't be a fan of the team.
So why bother with the purity questions?
Because it's a complete social rejection of the idea that a profiteering parasite can be a fan purely because of their profiteering.
Sure, a true Scottsman can run a business, but no true Scotsman is only a Scotsman because they profit off of Scottish people.
In other words, believe in SOMETHING dammit.
Bitcoiners vary wildly in their beliefs. There are true Bitcoiners who I kid you not believe in communism.
But someone to say they're a Bitcoiner purely because they profit from Bitcoin is not a Bitcoiner, but a profiteerer.
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I love analogies too.
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