0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja OP 13h \ on: Do You Want to More Clearly Define Terms? bitcoin
Do I need to do another "Hey btw human action means humans doing actions and when people organize things that is part of although not the end all be all of what naturally means"
Self defeating userbase man.
What to do about the current disfunction in our ability to speak clearly right now?
"Wallet" gets to mean a banking app like wallet of satoshi
Bitcoin gets to mean literally any coin
A cryptocurrency gets to mean company script including that which doesn't use a blockchain
Blockchain gets to mean decentralized
Decentralized gets to mean like 3 companies are running the servers for it.
So when you mean to say the exact opposite of all of those things we don't have a word for them anymore because all of them have been co-opted, and so many Bitcoiners want to be self-defeating and not defend the meaning of the message we're trying to say.
Thank you so much for this post. That's exactly what I was trying to say. Words mean things... and in my opinion there is 'confusion' exactly because of what you stated, all these words are used interchangeably and none of them are used correctly.
So the public never knows what to think, the general public is confused, and trading to get more fiat... somehow becomes the Bitcoin 'meta' because the "sucker is going up" (TM).
No that's not the meta here on Stacker News... but it is becoming/or has become the perception generally. If it's Bitcoin the Money then that means using it as money, or at least wanting to with sincere effort.
Instead it feels like Trading, Scamming, Deceiving, Misrepresenting, and Buy the Rumor Sell the News based on the rec of your fav 'crypto' influencer.
If that 'influencer' really wanted Bitcoin or anything else to "take off" and go "to the moon" they would encourage folks to spend it so that Bitcoin becomes an MoE. But instead it is all exchange-rate speculation while sitting on le toilet. Let's call a spade a spade.
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