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Because @realBitcoinDog is a real Bitcoiner
My bet? On Monday they will announce that they bought more this week.
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price appreciation and thus protection against fiat inflation is what makes bitcoin worthwhile... when that runs it reverse, YEAH, pumpamentals change
So what you're saying (and I mean this with all due respect) is that you're a NgU maxi?
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The sad thing is... what did all the bullying really accomplish?
Nothing, it accomplished nothing.
I guess the forkers are happy now they can feel more confident pushing their soft fork/sorry temporary soft-fork on the rest of the network.
But will the soft-fork be successful now? Did the bullyers succeed in changing Bitcoin?
Did the bullyers out-bid the spammers?
Well, no.
And ah now 'core has been shown the door' the price will go up! Except... no... that hasn't happened.
The public will better understand Bitcoin now! Now that "it's money" because op_return is temporarily limited to 80 bytes... except the public doesn't even know these conversations are going on.
Surely knots will take over! Everyone will use it! Except it's... downstream of Core so that doesn't help. But the filters! Oh wait... knots filters sub1sat/vbyte but we still have those so...
And we wonder why the public doesn't understand Bitcoin.
It's not early. There are numerous crypto ETFs right now. There are zero barriers at this point to anyone buying it. It's fully mainstream.
LOL Bitcoin is anything but mainstream. Zero of my friends have Lightning wallets. I tell them in 10-15 years they will mostly all have them and they just turn their head...
there's not really an online Bitcoin (or even Ethereum) community like there was a few years ago.
Bloomberg doesn't even know Lightning exists... they lament the loss of "micropayments" instead. Relative to that Stacker News is actually doing pretty well.
crypto-adjacent ideas like stablecoins and tokenization...but there's no evidence that value will accrue to these networks.
Yes because they are worthless.
It seems to me that the value proposition of Bitcoin and (and even things like crypto) is that they route around the awful mess of a financial system
Bitcoin has value imo because it is a quality, energy-management network across the internet that's better than everything else.
We have an incredibly crypto-friendly administration.
LOL we have a scam-friendly administration... as long as it benefits them! They didn't 'buy Bitcoin' they created their own memecoins!
If you're a talented tech person, why are you doing crypto stuff instead of AI?
Do they mean crypto stuff... or do they mean Bitcoin stuff? Aren't we doing Bitcoin stuff???
Meanwhile AI is crowding out Bitcoin specifically. For a long time, one of the big ideas behind Bitcoin was that miners could exploit access to cheap or stranded electricity.
Bitcoin and AI are 2 sides of the same coin.
This is a great chance to get Bitcoin cheap. We are not the same.
100%
@Solomonsatoshi do you report every single zap, every micro-transaction of a few sats, on your taxes to the authorities?
All the transaction fees, when you 'received' the sats and when you 'disposed' of them for Zapping? Or did New Zealand removed capitals gains taxes on Bitcoin the last few years?
Why hide? Surely you reported each Zap, correct?
That's not why I got into Bitcoin. I got into Bitcoin because it is an energy management/distribution network across the internet.
I had zero idea what the price was or had been when I first started buying it and I honestly don't really care now.
Every financial asset in history has had bull and bear markets... Amazon Nvidia Google all of them went down and people sold. I watched people trade, mistakenly, huge sums of Amazon and Nvidia in the mid-2000s which was a mistake and everyone should know it now but they don't.
We cannot determine what people do in markets, especially over short time periods all we can do is run a node and depend on our values and intelligence.
I don't normally mute other users or downzap... because I really like to get a variety of quality perspectives, even if I disagree with them. It also doesn't help to mute, because SN is such a small community muting people means even fewer users which we don't want.
At the same time... comments and replies should be constructive. I will give it time, sometimes alcohol is involved and it's understandable people can be a little touchy given the market volatility which is normal.
Are you a government agent @Solomonsatoshi ???
No, dude. I copy and paste the invoice into CoinOS and pay it there. It takes like 1-2 seconds.
CoinOS automatically recognizes what to pay how much and the routing fees... it's great. Don't... make assumptions. OK?
If I have zero CCs/Sats in my Stacker News "wallet" (which I do, I have zero).
How am I paying to post comment or zap other users???
I agree with you, miner centralization sucks. However it's a problem if miners 1) attack the network 51% or 2) censor transactions.
I haven't seen any evidence of either.
And ultimately... what's the alternative?
In my opinion the centralization issue won't really be addressed until people go out and spend their Bitcoin, pay the miners lots, and make more MoE. Which won't happen until we have better education which is the most important thing.
I'm right there with you, I am amazed at how far Lightning has come and all the cool stuff it enables, even if it's a little bit buggy/frustrating at times.
The biggest thing Lightning is missing today is education. The "shitcoiners" the "degens" the "crypto" nonsense has tremendously slowed Bitcoin's adoption, especially when people buy Bitcoin because of NgU not because of curiosity or technical competence or value.
That's what the bear markets do - they wash out all the tourists and IMO we are speed-running year 4 of "the cycle".
In the meantime we need a lot more education but it will take time and be gradual.
I can personally attest to lots of different businesses that now accept Bitcoin that didn't several years ago. Its extremely niche but you can actually use Lightning in the 'real world' which didn't exist 5 years ago.
Midsized... I'm not even sure that SN is that big.
It took 15 years for Bitcoin to become a Store of Value (albeit a volatile one).
IMO it takes another 15 years to become a widespread medium of exchange SN is just the first evidence of that, using the Lightning Network.