21 sats \ 5 replies \ @sancristrader 14 Sep 2023 \ on: POLL: Which is holding back Bitcoin adoption the MOST? bitcoin
Lack of usecases. The doomsday hyperinflation scenario has not happened yet, but as a currency BTC is too slow (or L2 like LN is too difficult).
Doomsday is not a prerequisite for Bitcoin. Doomsday prepping is often just a larp anyway, but it can still be good when it means the person doomsday prepping is prepared for natural disasters and things that actually happen.
What is a prerequisite, is a general disdain for the status quo, and a desire to opt into a different system. That is all. The current system does not have to fail for people within that system to network and establish trade networks among themselves.
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That's just utopian imo. People don't do anything at scale because of goodwill or consciousness: they do things at scale when it's absolutely necessary, lucrative/rewarding or when there's a mass psychosis.
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These "people" you speak of aren't referring to me and my homies apparently.
Again, your network, who you choose to trade with. Fuck everyone else
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Clearly. The original question was about the mass adoption, I am referring to the masses.
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“When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.
I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.
When I found I couldn’t change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn’t change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.
Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.”
— The Internet, circa mid 2000's
They are the same discussion
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