What can we point to within Bitcoin that better addresses their immediate values and preferences, without trying to convince them of the importance of values that they likely don't care about?
  • Less fees (L2s)
  • Irreversible tx & no chargeback (onchain)
  • Trustless & fancy financial feature (DLC & RGB)
  • 24/7 payment network
  • Can send value as low as 1 sats
  • Can send money privately & borderlessly
  • NO KYC NO BS wallet set up
  • Can put your money inside your head
  • Possibility 0% fees on every txs (direct channel on LN)
  • Deflationary or can buy more stuff over time
The list goes on & on,you can shill these benefits even to nromies
I think most of that list is well beyond a "normie", but the 24/7 aspect is a real place to start.
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  • Can save a lot by using LN instead of credit card
  • No more Paypal freezing user's balance scenario
  • Can bet on football result using DLC, can also hold fiat by shorting 1× BTC/USD
  • No more Sunday bank holiday lol
  • Micropayments (good for 3rdworlders)
  • Foreign workers scenario
  • Easier access to weed & drugs
  • No more giving id & 7 day waiting process just to set up account
  • Brain wallet is underrated asf
  • What else payment network could offer 0% fees digitally ?
  • Savings & low time preference
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Normies don't see credit card fees or work outside the country they live in and they don't have low time-preference.
However, if it makes sports betting easier, that's huge. Btw, on that note, I just discovered that FreeBitcoin has NFL betting.
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No more giving id & 7 day waiting process just to set up account
The lowered friction of online payments in general is huge
no more of this shit
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We see the problem with that, but people are used to it, so they don't care.
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Factually sad
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I've definitely heard complaints from some normies about this awful UX
Just gotta get them their first taste of paying with LN
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yeah I'd say maybe only 2 of these resonate with a normie: cheaper fees and 24/7
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Those are the two I've really heard people complain about. The other one you might get some traction on is irreversible transactions, but people will only want that on the receiving end and will be turned off by it on the sending end.
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On top of this, understanding why we need decentralization to facilitate cheaper, global, 24/7 payments instead of centralized custodians is another uphill battle
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Have you seen the list of benefits of exercise?
  • add decades to your healthspan
  • be 3-4x as strong
  • end up far richer due to improved hormones
  • sleep with far hotter women
  • etc
And yet, even a great many bitcoiners do not lift.
OP's question that features matter is clearly wrong, or hyperbitcoinization would have already happened. Bitcoin adoption is primarily driven by emotion.
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Wrong reply section ?
I just hitted leg btw, not intensive enough but at least i'm not skipping it entirely
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ser my entire point is that the features dont matter. thus why i am asking what does matter
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