Speak for yourself. I'm not obsessive about bitcoin to protect my wealth, not only to, at least. From the very start I was into bitcoin for the human rights issues. Alex Gladstein stuff. I knew about the Cypherpunks from back in the days of them fighting the Clipper Chip in the mid 1990's and was an anarchist/Voluntaryist already before bitcoin was launched. Since 2011 at least, I've seen bitcoin as the most important discovery towards human freedom in mankind's entire history, and it is to be protected at all costs.
That's a bit more important than my own personal net worth. I'm very happy that protecting one means protecting the other too.
Human rights is a way to mask our greed, but the important issues with human rights were never going to be solved by just bitcoin and access to basic remittance, but technology at large, and increases in technological efficiency to where the floor is raised for everyone, or, the welfare state achieves marginal cost.
One of the many efficiencies achieved will be money itself, and it will enable proliferation, abundance. But it will be via bitcoin base and usd quote. Bitcoiners think they can separate the btc/usd pair, but they can't, and are quite dishonest about it. The closer these become, the faster the technological parabola accelerates, including what it (bitcoindollars) can do for energy, esp energy efficiency.
I'm saying we're full of shit. Acting like NgU and real wealth incentives aren't critical for the network to operate (go look at the history of the testnet mess before centralized signet). Pretending we give a shit wether or not shitcoiners lose their money (we care about diverted attention from our network, thus our stack). Acting like we care about poverty abroad when it's camping all over outside our front doors. Acting like most are not one-issue voters. Acting like bitcoin will transition the world's value without the usd. Acting like CBDCs carry more spyware than the phone you're using now (spyware is just one issue). Acting like anarcho capitalist fiefdoms are an improvement to our 1st world lives. Acting like our first world lives aren't amazing already. Acting like bitcoin layer one is a place the majority of the world will be transacting or saving. Acting like the masses will ever know or care how bitcoin works or why it works any more than they do their car engine. We're greedy liars you, I, and the rest. And the network's hardness reflects that.
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I honestly don't reflect those values you seem to think everyone has. Not everyone thinks like you.
You confuse the importance of money for the importance of a payment network. Payment networks come & go and are upgraded all the time. Of course "Technology" is more important than the current payment network.
Money, however, is orders of magnitude more important than "technology." How could it not be? You use money on the other half of every trade you make! Buying a MP3 player? You trade money for technology. And all your food. & your housing. See where I'm going with this?
Money is also speech. It's important in so many things that of course governments have to try to control it and spread lies like "money is the root of all evil." - In truth it is the opposite... You can't do much good without money!
At it's root, money is nothing less than the only tool we have to keep things "fair" between humans. Without money there is war over resources, with it there can be equality. -At least with hard money, not this fiat pansie shit we have today.
Fix the money, fix the world. - It's not just a clever slogan.
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Hmm. If bitcoin wasn't a payment network, it wouldn't work. We've already had hard money and a gold standard. Gold is not a payment network. That money (gold) was corrupted by being brought into a centralized network lacking transparency, and stamped with the authority of the state.
If bitcoin was not a payment network, nothing is different. There's no way to enforce rules. There's no decentralization. Its brilliance is that it flips the dynamic and as a decentralized payment network (as well as a hard money) with transparency, brings currency into ITS system. That currency is whatever quotes it. That's the Trojan Horse.
Fix the money fix the world is an ambiguous statement. Fix means something different than replace.
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