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This is why shouldn't get attached to mass media. If you can't possess a fully-functioning copy and run it on hardware you control fully, there's a bargain being made. Save your money for developers who respect you as a sovereign individual and that world will grow.
Politics is more important here than economics. I'm not sure which is more worse, the relationship between citizen and state or state and corporation.
Yes to the title. No to the final question. For Bitcoin to reach its potential it has a lot more NGU to do. I prefer my assets appreciate not depreciate. I think a lot of what makes this work so clownish is that people try to act in the interests of total strangers. Sure it's be great if other people had Bitcoin and used it but what's better than that is for me to get as much as I can first.
Stock prices are about future profits, and there are two paths which can be taken simultaneously, that AI is on a self-reinforcing upward spiral which will eventually make good on those profits, and that a weak dollar (the ultimate NgU technology) will eventually consume any overhang the market might reach. Bitcoin is under house arrest and as such is bet on working and waiting its way out to freedom.
There are plenty of people in the world who do understand money, power, territory and I bet they'll figure out how to use Bitcoin. That's not great to hear if you don't, but maybe that's the challenge bitcoiner's need to hear. If you don't learn to understand it, your coins will naturally flow to those who do.
What I think you're getting at, certainly with a not small lack of charm, is that it's one thing to have money and quite another to be skilled in its use. Bitcoin comes with no manual and lessons are hard one but what's the rush!? As the Bitcoiner messes about with hippy micropayments and shit-corporations the part she does not spend continues it's inevitable path toward world renovation. Perhaps instead of the chide you could offer resources for the skillful deployment of capital.
As people reach end of life the question comes to those who are left behind (spouse, other family). Can they or do they want to stay there? That decision sums it all up.
I don't know about this question but I think the next post should be about exploring Germany's potentially magical teats.
What happens when you turn 15? Why isn't it 12, 18, or 25? At a minimum join the EFF and send the emails.
Artists most valuable audience is other artists. Here I'll leave it to the AI art creators to judge the process, medium, and results.
One doesn't simply crack Bitcoin. Think about all the other dominos that'd fall when that time comes. Did you know that for all this push for passkeys, those aren't even Q- resistant?
How about...
Home Alone 2: Plaza Hotel for Bitcoin
Here you are a flummoxed Macaulay Culkin left behind again, but this time you found a Trezor in the house with pin and a not-insignificant number of sats within. You get your cousin to give you their credit card so you can live large at the famed Plaza Hotel. It's not on his dime though as you promise to settle up along the way.
Your cousin checks his credit card transactions and his Bitcoin wallet every day or two. As long as each charge is accompanied by sats, he doesn't report the card stolen.
The hotel staff is no less suspicious, but how about the credit card company?
Just another day at the office making sure plebs can't wriggle through state fingers. Economic incentives being what they are the wriggling will just change.
There exists a term which is frequently used as a metaphor in business, technology, and science to describe situations where people copy the superficial form of a successful process without understanding the underlying principles that make it work. That term is cargo cult. The social network side of Nostr is this. It copies the superficial form of a social network without understanding the underlying principles that make it work. Fundamentally those are ease of use, enjoyability, reliability and a modicum of privacy. That's not to say these couldn't be addressed using npubs, notes, kinds, etc. It's just that few of the leading developers are willing to make the necessary trade offs to satisfy these principles.