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227 sats \ 2 replies \ @0260378aef 6 May 2023 \ on: Sorry! It’s just that you’re going to have to pay/ask permission to use Bitcoin bitcoin

This same logic could be applied to literally anything (it always costs something to do anything, at all).

However:

  1. I actually really like this article, it's refreshing and thought-provoking, well written and at least somewhat original.
  2. It's probably helpful to stop people with their endless tendency towards magical thinking, the "something for nothing" attitude. This thing (Bitcoin) demands a lot from you, if you want to directly interact with it.

But, perhaps the author's intent is really criticism; if so, then here's the response: base layer Bitcoin will never be a consumer payments technology. It fundamentally is not, and cannot be that.

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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @jarolrod OP 6 May 2023

Yeah this was mainly an amusing way for me to examine the direction we're going in with regards to tooling for non-technical people. Obviously base layer will not be where most transactions occur, but the steps required for someone to run it still needs to be low (and it is that way right now with core having a gui). For example, If someone wanted to setup their own Fedimint server, they need a bitcoin backend.

The ladder to the consumer tech layer can't be paywalled along the way :)

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0260378aef 6 May 2023

It's not a "ladder" to a consumer payments tech layer. That would imply you need to traverse it to get there, but you don't. Not everyone has to have and run a node, in any meaningful sense. As you correctly point out in the article, that scenario is problematic and not realistic.

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