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I find hopium loathsome and poisonous. It is fairly chronic here and even worse on other BTC based platforms.
Why do I object to hopium? Because it seeks to pump enthusiasm and ignore the obstacles and thereby it prevents even discussion and consideration of problems facing BTC and therefore tends toward endangering BTC rather than enabling thoughtful exploration of awareness of the problems and potential solutions.
Hopium will be popular on SNs but I'm not here to milk sats- Im here to raise what I see as the problems and potential exploration of solutions related to Bitcoin and other issues.
If you dont like it keep on with your Libertarian circle jerking and shoot the messenger attacks upon me...I expect nothing less.
BTW congratulations on your orange pilling experience but I think we all know how rare such positive experiences are and how much FUD there is out there preventing most people from gaining a better understanding of Bitcoin. I would agree we need to continue to try and educate and push back against the huge obstruction and misinformation that is opposing Bitcoin P2P adoption.
Why do I object to hopium? Because it seeks to pump enthusiasm and ignore the obstacles and thereby it prevents even discussion and consideration of problems facing BTC and therefore tends toward endangering BTC rather than enabling thoughtful exploration of awareness of the problems and potential solutions.
Yeah, I can't deny this. I'm guilty of it even. But hopium is a large part of every meaningful revolution from the people and I think your objection to it is so strong it becomes damaging.
If you dont like it keep on with your Libertarian circle jerking and shoot the messenger attacks upon me...I expect nothing less.
As I said above it's only your opinion about bitcoins everyday use among the plebs. I don't understand the need for a political classification I haven't fed into any libertarian rhetoric in my post.
FWIW Libertarianism ideals is what brought me to bitcoin in the first place in 2021 but now I feel the existence of bitcoin has actually justified all forms of government. and I have moved away from libertarianism ideas because of it. Justifying all forms of government may be a hot take but the risk of ruin caused by a nefarious government or dictator is becoming lower and lower. As bitcoin proliferates the ability for any one government to control via anti-capital-flight measures lowers in direct proportion to the size of the Bitcoin network--social and node count.
Bitcoin aids the individual in choosing geographical location and thus how he or she will be governed, if at all.
And this is my biggest issue with your "no one uses bitcoin" rhetoric because already, relative to five years ago, I personally, know of many places in there world I could go to and survive using bitcoin as MoE. The social network of people using bitcoin as a MoE may be small relative to NGU nonsense you see on twitter but it has never stopped growing since the day it started.
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I believe there is no need for hopium. Bitcoin is an incredible revolutionary protocol and has achieved a huge number of victories already. I am thinking about the fact it has survived, grown in value and triggered a huge ecosystem of tech development (eg SNs and LN). One of the biggest 'wins' in my opinion is the way Bitcoin has empowered literally millions of people to save liquid capital and that capital has grown incredibly giving those people who dared to challenge the state imposed fiat monopoly the ability to build many projects and innovations. The ecosystem is amazing and gives me hope. But, the obstruction of MoE use is huge...sly in the case of the west, but still huge. The fud, the KYC, and most of all the sly tax rules making everyday and convenient MoE use actually impractical except for those of us who are prepared to ignore the tax laws. I agree there are pockets of Bitcoin acceptance and maybe they are growing but I don't see much progress overall in terms of reaching the scale of acceptance and adoption required to enable mass adoption...what I see is increasingly the narrative is SoV speculative commodity hopium and increasing KYC and institutional custody which excludes MoE use. Except in El Salvador or some regions of Switzerland is there anywhere where ordinary people can buy a coffee with Bitcoin without the absurd tax recording requirements which make such purchases and use completely impractical? I agree Bitcoin has and does provide some very healthy and much needed competition and alternative to the state imposed fiat monopolies. I see the fiat monopoly monetary system as a hugely corrupting influence on our governments and capitalism itself and Bitcoin as a brilliant way of providing us with an alternative money/capital that is not imposed but which we can choose to adopt and by so doing avoid the states debasement and debt slavery. But the state is aware of this too and this is why they have and will obstruct BTC MoE with all their power and cunning.
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