75 sats \ 11 replies \ @senf 15 Aug 2023 \ on: Stuff that's cringe in Bitcoin: bitcoin
1 BTC = 1 BTC
i actually like this, maybe i'm cringe but understanding what this meant really crystallized bitcoin for me.
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It's a tautological shibboleth that conveys no useful information. All of the information contained in what you say by "understanding what this meant" is the good stuff, not this stupid saying.
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I agree that it's tautological, but if stating something so plain and simple can cause people to have a revelation that seems useful. Poetry is made of this kind of stuff.
This is kind of like saying a compressed file is not useful because it requires being decompressed.
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mental file storage 🤌
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Stating something so simple doesn't cause people to have a revelation though. It means nothing unless it's explained, and that explanation should replace its use.
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Stating something so simple doesn't cause people to have a revelation though.
I'm not sure we can conclude that. For me, it led to "oh yeah the price of bitcoin doesn't matter if you accept things will eventually be priced in bitcoin." I assume avianoculartissue21 had a similar revelation.
It means nothing unless it's explained, and that explanation should replace its use.
Unless I'm misunderstanding, your argument reduces to an argument against abstraction.
Why write
1 + 1 = 2 when we could explain arithmetic every time instead?Are we disagreeing or misunderstanding each other?
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nothing wrong in synthesizing all the "good stuff" into a single concept
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Who is the message for? Newbies don't know what it means. Veterans know it already.
If it's said to a newbie, it's better to just give them the relevant information so they can learn. If you're saying it to a veteran, it may as well be "bitcoin is awesome" for all the info it conveys.
A=A is universally true. 1 BTC = 1 BTC, 1 taco = 1 taco, and 1 USD = 1 USD. It's impossible for it to be anything else. A thing always equals itself.
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I like to use this one to outcirclejerk the circklejerkers
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