It's not early.  There are numerous crypto ETFs right now. There are zero barriers at this point to anyone buying it. It's fully mainstream.

 but mainstream. Zero of my friends have Lightning wallets. I tell them in 10-15 years they will 

 all have them and they just turn their head...

there's not really an online Bitcoin (or even Ethereum) community like there was a few years ago.

Bloomberg doesn't even know Lightning exists... they lament the loss of "micropayments" instead. Relative to that Stacker News is actually doing pretty well.

crypto-adjacent ideas like stablecoins and tokenization...but there's no evidence that value will accrue to these networks.

It seems to me that the value proposition of Bitcoin and (and even things like crypto) is that they route around the awful mess of a financial system

 because it is a quality, energy-management network across the internet 

We have an incredibly crypto-friendly administration.

LOL we have a scam-friendly administration... as long as it benefits them! They didn't 'buy Bitcoin' they created 

If you're a talented tech person, why are you doing crypto stuff instead of AI?

 stuff... or do they mean Bitcoin stuff? Aren't 

Meanwhile AI is crowding out Bitcoin specifically. For a long time, one of the big ideas behind Bitcoin was that miners could exploit access to cheap or stranded electricity.

Bitcoin and AI are 2 sides of the same coin.

This is a great chance to get Bitcoin cheap. We are not the same.

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> It's not early.  There are numerous crypto ETFs right now. There are zero barriers at this point to anyone buying it. It's fully mainstream.

LOL Bitcoin is *anything* but mainstream. Zero of my friends have Lightning wallets. I tell them in 10-15 years they will *mostly* all have them and they just turn their head...

> there's not really an online Bitcoin (or even Ethereum) community like there was a few years ago.

Bloomberg doesn't even know Lightning exists... they lament the loss of "micropayments" instead. Relative to that Stacker News is actually doing pretty well.

> crypto-adjacent ideas like stablecoins and tokenization...but there's no evidence that value will accrue to these networks.

Yes because they are worthless.

> It seems to me that the value proposition of Bitcoin and (and even things like crypto) is that they route around the awful mess of a financial system

Bitcoin has value *imo* because it is a quality, energy-management network across the internet *that's better than everything else.*

> We have an incredibly crypto-friendly administration.

LOL we have a scam-friendly administration... as long as it benefits them! They didn't 'buy Bitcoin' they created *their own* memecoins!

> If you're a talented tech person, why are you doing crypto stuff instead of AI?

Do they mean *crypto* stuff... or do they mean Bitcoin stuff? Aren't *we* doing Bitcoin stuff???

> Meanwhile AI is crowding out Bitcoin specifically. For a long time, one of the big ideas behind Bitcoin was that miners could exploit access to cheap or stranded electricity.

Bitcoin and AI are 2 sides of the same coin.

> This is a great chance to get Bitcoin cheap. We are not the same.

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