208 sats \ 0 replies \ @ln_cortado 5 Oct 2022 freebie \ parent \ on: Are You Feeling the Bitcoin Winter Yet? bitcoin
Which is one side of why the Taro development is hopeful.
I think it's going to be a bit of a stretch to move people living in first-world countries away from the fiat mindset entirely, especially enough to begin adopting niche unpolished technologies like LN.
Fiat is here to stay for a few more decades barring some really extreme hyperinflationary event.
What we have is unsustainable and awfully unfair/etc, but not unacceptable to most of the masses. I mean we did go through a bunch of other unacceptable things recently and everybody accepted them, what's a few extra percentage points of inflation compared to being locked in your home for months?