2302 sats \ 9 replies \ @Undisciplined 12 Sep 2023 \ on: What do you think the next 5 years of bitcoin will look like? bitcoin
More gradual building out of lightning services and adoption from merchants. Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
Rapid adoption, because that probably means the dollar collapsed or totalitarian CBDC's got pushed through. Many people aren't even remotely ready for a switch to Bitcoin and we would see lots of lost wealth from mishandling.
I expect more and more alternatives to Big Tech platforms, especially as censorship season ramps up in America.
Carnivore diet, but that's pretty tangential to all the important things they're getting right.
LOL, carnivore diet. This diet is a fad that just happens to overlap with bitcoin. I'm not a carnivore diet person but I love meat and see the dietary value of it. It is funny to me to watch how much people are triggered by the carnivores though.
reply
Before the carnivores come after me. I do think there are some valid points made in favor of this diet. I know someone that has been helped by it. Just not for me.
reply
I'd acknowledge many valid critiques they have of conventional diets and mainstream nutrition science.
reply
I wouldn't say I'm triggered by it, although I do think it's dumb. I was more struggling to think of something loud Bitcoiners are often wrong about.
reply
Yeah, you didn't sound triggered to me :) I don't think they are 100% wrong about it though either.
Bitcoiners are like a lot of other minority cultural groups. They have an underdog mentality. They can be overly aggressive like a small dog with something to prove. That's what makes it so funny how more "main stream" bitcoiners get triggered by them.
reply
If it turns out to be a healthy diet, I certainly won't mind admitting that, but it doesn't make nutritional sense to me. We've seen variations of these meat-centric diets end up being pretty unhealthy for decades.
My sense is that it's much like an herbivore diet, where the primary benefits just come from cutting out a bunch of the unhealthy crap and empty calories that makes up the Standard American Diet.
reply
There is a commonality between several diets that basically can be boiled down to no sugar, no processed foods, and very limited to no gluten. I have never heard someone serious argue that processed sugar is good for anyone. At best in small amounts you can tolerate it.
reply
I largely agree with that, although I tend to simplify it to "Eat whole foods." Everything after that is second order, as far as I can tell.
reply
Yeah. I don't have a strong opinion on this but that's pretty much what I think as well.
reply