I don't think complaining over the infighting helps adoption in any way, either.
The infighting harms adoption. The "bitcoin community" has no idea has poorly it reflects on us... or how counterproductive it is to 99% of the public.
Both sides are acting like idiots. From what I saw last time I looked, not only like idiots but hysterical ones to boot. Whenever I gave them any attention, they already won. And I lost some brain cells in the process.
It is having an impact in the real world. We would have 10x the users, 10x the education if the first point of contact with people was Lightning. Instead it's obscure technical arguments that (in my screenshots) aren't really effecting what's getting into blocks anyway.
That's very commendable and I find that a much better read.
Lightning is the real deal.
I'm just at a loss trying to understand what you expect complaining about empty blocks will actually achieve. Shame others into spending?
We need to address reality. Bitcoin today has all the tools it needs to scale to 50x maybe 100x more people... we should see vastly more people using it and there is a reason blocks are empty.
If Bitcoin had a CEO he would be working overtime to get the ship in order and make sure the user understands the product. We are currently failing not because of price but because of empty blocks. "Price" follows demand.
I enjoy a more positive approach where I can see how others actually spend their sats, like in your linked post. Which challenges they have, and how they get around them.
I could talk about that for hours... the difficulty is there's nowhere to... X doesn't discuss spending Lightning much. R/bitcoin is all price talk. Nostr is... i'm not sure what mostly sandwhich pictures it is so disorganized.
Where does that leave?
Having said all that, others may react positively to lamentations, kicking them into action. I'm only having a hard time seeing it actually work out that way. I reserve the right to having been proven wrong.
Bitcoin is a 17-year old skipping school smoking pot currently. Either we give ourselves "tough love" or the world will do that for us.
The infighting harms adoption. The "bitcoin community" has no idea has poorly it reflects on us... or how counterproductive it is to 99% of the public.
It is having an impact in the real world. We would have 10x the users, 10x the education if the first point of contact with people was Lightning. Instead it's obscure technical arguments that (in my screenshots) aren't really effecting what's getting into blocks anyway.
Lightning is the real deal.
We need to address reality. Bitcoin today has all the tools it needs to scale to 50x maybe 100x more people... we should see vastly more people using it and there is a reason blocks are empty.
If Bitcoin had a CEO he would be working overtime to get the ship in order and make sure the user understands the product. We are currently failing not because of price but because of empty blocks. "Price" follows demand.
I could talk about that for hours... the difficulty is there's nowhere to... X doesn't discuss spending Lightning much. R/bitcoin is all price talk. Nostr is... i'm not sure what mostly sandwhich pictures it is so disorganized.
Where does that leave?
Bitcoin is a 17-year old skipping school smoking pot currently. Either we give ourselves "tough love" or the world will do that for us.