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43 sats \ 15 replies \ @028559d218 3 Apr \ on: Bitcoin "Gold 2.0" My Ass. bitcoin
Rome wasn't built in a day. The people selling Bitcoin, I'm convinced, have never actually used it before....
People have to experience it to get it.
have never actually used it before....
From what I can tell, most Bitcoiners aren't interesting in "using" it (beyond just holding it) either. Kinda hard to expect the normies to use it when even the most hard-core Bitcoiners among us have no problem strolling into a coffee shop and paying with their fiat plastic.
The change starts with us, but we've colloquially chosen to do nothing.
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We're... using it right now dude.
Stacker News is a PoW - inspired antispam system.
It's pay to post. What are we paying in? Sats.
Just because it's not a coffee doesn't mean Bitcoin isn't filtering out tons of spam and low effort... we're sending sats back and forth all the time.
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I know, that's true. I run a LN node and use LN often. I've bought tons of food, wine, experiences, and even been to at least a dozen coffee shops taking Bitcoin for payment.
What I'm disappointed about is the lack of Bitcoiners refusing to use fiat. There is no longer a revolutionary heart in this movement. Less than 1% of Bitcoiners are willing to do what it takes to enact change.
During the American Revolution, most colonists weren't willing to go to war with England either. All it took was 10-20% who were willing to die for what they believed. In the Bitcoin world, there's less than 1% who are willing, while the rest happily spend fiat and can't be bothered to learn how to live without touching fiat.
After almost 2 decades of Bitcoin, you'd think we'd be further along than zapping each other on social media platforms....
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Stacker News didn't exist a few years ago. Nostr didn't either.
Nor did Zeus, nor did Phoenix, neither did LNaddresses or Bolt 12...
My opinion is that these things take time.
The 'man on the street' knows basically nothing about Bitcoin, just try asking the Uber driver if he 'takes Lightning'.
He just looks confused/unsure.
Then read articles in the newspapers and read the comments #908760
Basically zero knowledge about what Bitcoin is, and less than zero about Lightning.
What doesn't stop is the debt and deficits accumulated by governments... not to mention the political weaponization or mismanagement. Bitcoin will be here when people are really ready for it.
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Yea, I completely agree with you.
Pessimism is not my intent. My goal is to inspire people to care about this more.... to bring awareness to their own complacency around this important subject. To get Bitcoiners to take a stand a little stronger than the way they're taking now.
For example, I buy eggs from a local sound-money-loving Bitcoiner in my town. I have to go out of my way to arrange to meet just to buy eggs. It's more difficult than going to the grocery store, but it's worth it. These are the little things we all could be doing if we care about what we preach. Some are doing it..... but it's too few to make a difference. We don't need everyone doing it, just a healthy 10-20% of us crazy enough to make our lives a little more difficult by boycotting fiat to the extreme. 1-2% is not enough.
There are enough Bitcoiners to make a difference, but 99% are choosing not to. I think we should be going out of our way to use Bitcoin over fiat ...
I just think more awareness should be given to this subject.
OP's post here brought this rage out of me. Maybe I just needed to vent....
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Use Bitcoin when you can. But in my experience... the world will adopt it when it's ready to.
I've done the same, paid for coffee, pizza, beer... a few years ago I wanted to buy some tacos from a place on BTC map and when I wanted to 'pay in the Bitcoin' the employee just laughed at me. They had the payment terminal on an ipad...
But they absolutely couldn't care less, 'it didn't work', and the tacos sucked anyway.
Something I figured I would write on... is how Bitcoin is still "high-powered money" and therefore better for services rather than goods.
Services... includes ideas, innovation, and trust maximization. Like Pay-2-Post. And maybe that's why greater value exchange will happen on Stacker through services... than buying a taco to immediately consume and have it come out the other end.
We can use fiat for that...
Totally, normies loaded up on ETFs to get “exposure”.
Even just normal portfolio rebalancing would have them selling a bunch, to buy more stocks on the way down.
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You clearly haven't read the wall street journal comments section.