I get the impression AI has overtaken bitcoin as the technology of disruption in the zeitgeist. Until the average person can use it non-custodially and be their own bank, it's an investment and there isn't going to be much adoption beyond ETFs. As much as bitcoiners want it to be true, ecash doesn't fix this. Ecash fixes the privacy of banks and bank-like services, but it doesn't fix bitcoin self-custody and without self-custody bitcoin is a better gold best suited to the people who need it least.

I'm optimistic this will change, but it'll be long after everyone is done gaslightning themselves about our as-is half-baked revolution.