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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @fiatbad 5h \ parent \ on: Lots Of Riders Without Their Weapons meta
It's strange because I think there's a direct parallel with the way we interact with the fiat system.
I'm on SN regularly preaching about how we are supporting the dollar system every time we spend a dollar, so we should stop on principle. We should stop using Fold, and other CC's (pun intended). We should work our asses off building Bitcoin circular economies so we can truly escape fiat.
Yet, my instinct is to cheer on @DarthCoin for his CC protest here on SN.
Why do I support one, and oppose the other, when they are fundamentally the same thing?
I feel like a total hypocrite right now. Satoshi is frowning on me from his sky-throne :(
Yes it is a crazy situation given we want to use sats and yet because of regulatory pressure, probably more from a previous US administration, SNs had to introduce CCs and now some stackers choose not to use sats but instead use CCs which were really designed only to be used by people who could not yet set up a wallet.
Just shows how sly regulatory pressure can make establishing and maintaining a Bitcoin circular economy very difficult.
I may not fully understand the complexity of Darths position but will just keep using sats here because its still one of the very few places where I can.
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Why do I support one, and oppose the other, when they are fundamentally the same thing?
Emphasis mine; please, stay away from fundamentals.
Practical examples are much more helpful; e.g., if you're literally off the grid, i.e. generate electricity independently, then you can feel voluntaryistically bad about accepting a free beer in a pub where the power for checking keg labels is dispensed by The Man, or at least, by The Griiddy Monopsony.
Otherwise, the fundamental equivalence is practically untenable, and you're wasting your own stream of consciousness verbalising emotions that could be better spent participating in, I dunno, heckling at an open mic in a comedy club.
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