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What happened to the userbase of Stacker News? There is a narrower, smaller userbase now than there was a year ago. Granted the users now are more 'hard-core' and more dedicated... but there are fewer of them.

The fees are 1 sat/vbyte and the 'next block' is usually 20-30% actual 'transactions'... the rest of the block being repetitive op_return runes-things at (.2) sat/vbyte. Basically 2 pennies a transaction.

Bitcoin has no educational institute, no onboarding process, no easy adoption of merchants, no 'new-hire' process and so the education is all-over the place. Bitcoin "twatter" is a total disaster it's all buy-my-shitcoin shills and people promoting disinformation/misinformation.

In other words... "Lightning doesn't work" "buy my coin" nonsense over and over so new people have no idea where to even start, assuming that 'newbies' go to Twatter to 'learn about Bitcoin'.

On top of that you legally can't buy a coffee without declaring your 'capital gains' taxes on 1% appreciation from the day before... the current situation is untenable.

We recently had 2 'privacy wallet' developers literally go to jail for unlicensed money transmitting... on top of a non-custodial wallet which doesn't make any sense.

Yeah that all sucks. All I can do is do what I believe and keep it up.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 9h

Also, it could be much worse.

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2 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 8h

We will see what happens

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