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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @028559d218 OP 16h \ parent \ on: Where are the Bitcoiners? Where are the Spenders? Where are the Users? bitcoin
In my opinion what's comically evident... is how Bitcoin functions on economic incentives. Buying, spending, and hodling. Social media is 99% noise and nonsense... and trivially easy to sybil-attack or misrepresent. Bots are created in-mass... and there's no real solution to this unless people pay ie pay-2-post.
Which is funny because 'people' argue over the nuance of op_return... but will they really pay to outbid the spammers or keep them from spamming?
No... which I think is more telling.
I look at pay-2-post on Stacker News the exact same way I look at hash-cash and Bitcoin mining itself. Pay-to-use, pay-to-store and pay-to-interact... some kind of economic, uncheatable consequence for action.
It's not so much that there isn't 'regular commerce'... isn't the meaningless, useless arguing over 'what Bitcoin is for'. Bitcoin's use case isn't decided by people arguing about it, it's people going out and using it that way.
I agree. I just wish there wasn't so much stigma and... frankly ignorance associated with it. I have never see or heard of Lightning mentioned by a mainstream financial institution, except for maybe Block which is basically Bitcoin financial services.
Too much stigma to really discuss with other people which is a shame.
Bitcoin's use case isn't decided by people arguing about it, it's people going out and using it that way.
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Too much stigma to really discuss with other people which is a shame.
Yep. I was listening to a relative complain about all the frictions in her business' billing process and, of course, I was thinking "Bitcoin fixes this", but I knew she would tune it out.
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