No, but you cannot dictate the terms on which other people than yourself engage with Bitcoin. It is good that the next person that comes to your hairdresser that asks "can I pay in Bitcoin" gets a "yes", and then the follow-up conversation may be about financial sovereignty, peer to peer value exchange, cutting out middlemen... who knows?

only possible after YEARS of Lightning development, research, investment into UI and frankly YEARS of my own curiosity and education as to what BITCOIN is and how to use it well

I think that we've got to be patient. Spend more years. The thing about an utopia is that it will never happen, the game is to get as close as possible to it.

bitcoin

I paid my hairdresser recently on SQUARE and I don't know how I feel about it

anon

> Is this the cypherpunk vision?

No, but you cannot dictate the terms on which other people than yourself engage with Bitcoin. It is good that the next person that comes to your hairdresser that asks "can I pay in Bitcoin" gets a "yes", and then the follow-up conversation may be about financial sovereignty, peer to peer value exchange, cutting out middlemen... who knows?

As you said:

> only possible after YEARS of Lightning development, research, investment into UI and frankly YEARS of my own curiosity and education as to what BITCOIN is and how to use it well

I think that we've got to be patient. Spend more years. The thing about an utopia is that it will never happen, the game is to get as close as possible to it.