10 sats \ 0 replies \ @john_doe 26 May 2023 freebie \ on: What finally got you to be Bitcoin-only? bitcoin
First Terra Luna made me realize all the lies around the "ecosystem", or at least highly suspicious. I still didn't go Bitcoin only.
Then I came back later to a group on Telegram, where someone suggested to buy Terra Luna, the new version. It really pissed me off, I argued, and then the person responsible for the group changed the conversation to try to make people forget what I was saying. It pissed me off too because my criticism was justified. I almost went Bitcoin only.
Then I also saw people from Ethereum or other blockchains always criticizing Bitcoin but actually heavily reusing the code for some, or heavily relying on the innovation Bitcoin brought for the others. Generally the marketing goes something like we don't use a Merkle tree, we use a super duper version of Merkle trees, which makes Bitcoin obsolete. It pisses me off because psychologically it looks like a pathology where someone wants to kill the father, and morally it doesn't even acknowledged what Bitcoin brought.
So now I buy Bitcoin only... almost, I still think gold is a good tool for worst case scenarios. However the peace of mind with Bitcoin for robberies or travel is really great, and I don't need a paper to attest of the purity of the utxos I have, it is 24k by default.