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Fair point... When, in its history, would you say that happened?
I'm not certain, but I can speculate.
I think we lost something very important in the aftermath of the Blocksize War. I think a lot of momentum was lost there. I think many Bitcoiners underestimate how many great minds and members of the community stayed on the BCH-train TO THIS DAY.
These are people who would be the voice for Bitcoin as MoE, instead of only Gold 2.0.
I think Roger Ver has a lot of good points about Bitcoin losing important MoE momentum, giving fiat-based digital payments time to catch up (CashApp, Zelle, etc...).
We lost a lot of good people, who no longer support the cause.
I fear we could face a similar situation if we lose guys like Mechanic because of the Knots stuff.
Honestly, there's way more I'd like to go into in order to answer your question. I'm just spitballin' off the top of my head in a very tired state tonight. This would be a good discussion topic for a whole new post, maybe.
These 2 images give me hope, and they are the reason I believe in Bitcoin.
One is a place to spend it, and the other a censorship-resistant evidence of people trading it, moving it, and spending it with full blocks.
No Knots needed, no bip-110 just economic incentives to move Money around...
This is why eventually our entire civilization will use Bitcoin despite the tremendous lack of education today.
Correct.
When prominent members of Stacker News who loudly proclaim they are BTC Maxis refuse to attach LN wallets and actually live and demonstrate their claimed positions you know there is a lot of pure BULLSHIT being spouted by some here on Stacker News.
@Darthcoin is a primary BTC Maxi hypocrit.
Bitcoin is not threatening the fiat system in any tangible way. Therefore, Bitcoin (more accurately humans using Bitcoin) is broken. Period.
If I simply wanted to store value across time/space, I could just buy gold.
The world doesn't need Gold 2.0. It needs a replacement for fiat. When the Bitcoin community forgot about that goal, and embraced NGU nonsense, Bitcoin broke.