I'm so glad to see that this post... has elicited some of the real discussions (and disagreements) that are necessary for us to move forward.

Somehow some kind of way especially on NOSTR the non-use or only marginal use or gray-market use of Bitcoin is glossed over.

People who really should know better almost never mention the lack of MoE... The lack of places to spend, and the total lack of "real adoption" with regards to being able to spend, exchange, and swap Bitcoin in the vast majority of "real-life" scenarios.

It's all "bitcoin bitcoin bitcoin" but obviously where do you spend it? And if you "do" spend it or exchange it P2P and don't report it then in most places it's illegal.

Like you said, who is going to report every single latte or cup of coffee... with the time of the 'purchase' of those sats, then where they were 'spent' and the 'gains' which would probably be pennies anyway? Lightning makes Bitcoin move fast... really fast the idea of 'keeping track' of every sat is ridiculous.

I don't actually believe that's it's "the taxes" that keep it from being an MoE... I happen to think there are a number of reasons for 1 sat/vbyte at this point in time (sad really). But 1) acknowledging the current state of things and 2) working to improve the situation is really important.

Eventually Bitcoin is about more than Digital Gold, it's the 'private sector' money free from government creation that's there for anyone to use... and it's just better. This conversation needs to be had in places like Nostr, Stacker News and especially Reddit plus twitter so we can move the community forward.