31 sats \ 1 reply \ @BallLightning 16 Sep \ on: has getting into bitcoin changed you personally? bitcoin
No it hasn't. I have always been a fan of decentralized everything. Even when google launched their android OS and i got a smart phone I didn't like the idea of having my mail linked to my phone linked to youtube linked to the apps I download ... I looked at all the p2p file sharing solutions. I liked Skype when it launched, but even there I didn't like that your identity there was still centralized. I am even more for decentralization than most guys here. I created this for making nostr peer to peer: #668686 . However even there i was met with the same "you don't need this" attitude that I am seeing whole my life when i say to people that i would like to use something that is not centralized.
Back in the day I was thinking how p2p money would work and mentally i thought that since data can be copied, you can't really have a decentralized money. In 2009 I found bitcoin, I even got 0.5 btc from some tap for free (that I lost on some formatted hard drive), played around and stopped following it, since I thought this could not scale (I was surprised when lightning network appeared and that's when I started having the mindset that some problems that I can't think the solution of do find their solution).
I also don't like the idea that bitcoin (as a token) is just something that isn't really backed by anything (yeah, i know this is a criticism of the anti bitcoin people, but i find it true), but I also changed my mindset on that. Not because anything other but because when I run mental experiments in my head I find all other real (fiat, gold) or imaginary (Paul Grignon's digital coin) solutions way inferior (when put in the real world).
So yeah, nothing changed for me and I hope the scalability problem will be really solved (lightning increases greatly scalability, but doesn't offer whole planet scalability).
this is quite interesting, it seems like a key to understanding btc comes in large part from an understanding or perception of an issue (decentralisation ,fiat printing etc ) so some people got the appeal right away
since i was, maybe like many, asleep at the wheel and not paying attention to any of this , nothing stood out. it was just new thing, number go up, get distracted by shitcoins etc and then a long road of discovery.
still, better late than never i suppose
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