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Fair points brev, you're an early adopter with dev skillz and you're right to have strong opinions on what you believe to be right
To be fair the laggards that would use a mainstream Bitcoin in the future would only be using it because everyone else does
The same way most normies don't understand fiat, they just tap and pay
I often think about this response, which was made before I was using Bitcoin - at the time it was made I was very skeptical of it, due to how it was pitched to me. Too much hype. Which is exactly what this comment tries to counter, and I would have probably come around earlier if I knew about it at the time.
Whenever there is a big acceleration in "adoption" happening, I somewhat feel this, because it feels artificial. Hyped. Real change takes time, and it shouldn't be coming from some shitcoin overtaking Bitcoin.
imho especially not one created by Paul that, as you rightly point out, literally does redistribution, like an overlord on a freshly-risen-to-power-trip would do. Pay your frens with stolen coins, from before day 1 even. What a fucking joke of a corrupt mess yo.
It'll come tho. But patience is a virtue and above all, as long as the hypes keep failing, there is hope.
I wasn't trying to argue that you're wrong. I'm just saying that the only wallets to care about regarding custodianness is your own - maybe the one you stand to inherit too if you're a greedy mf - but other than that... who the fuck cares? If Bitcoin would ever go mainstream it will not be on the same terms as what a purist would want, so there will just be a subset. There will always be a subset. No one wants to be put in the same bucket with the normies anyway.