825 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 5 Nov 2023 \ parent \ on: A Contrarion view (challenge what you know about Bitcoin) bitcoin
All of your examples were overturned with generational change (Save for fashion to an extent).
I noted that, and almost said something, but didn't in the interest of time. I think this is a very important idea -- I'm not in love with the idea of "generations" bc there's a bunch of stuff packed in there that complicate it, but broadly I think I know what you mean, and broadly I agree with you.
Will the next generation adopt Bitcoin? That I don't think we can know for certain, but Bitcoin is not as flimsy as fashion, that we do know.
We've got some strong signals so far, I agree with that. Fifteen years is a hell of a thing. I try to pinch myself sometimes and remind myself that this thing that seemed so dumb a decade ago is now being discussed all the time on MSM, and is viewed by some as part of a strategic position for a Presidential platform. Insane.
I also try to keep in mind that having x years of history, where .8x years were spent where almost nobody outside of a tiny sect knew or cared, can be misleading. For some amount of time now, btc has been in The League. The years when they were playing D3 college basketball are not irrelevant, but nor are they decisive.
I would think this generational overturn would involve keeping the name Bitcoin but just under a different ruleset (a softfork or a hardfork of sorts), but it is possible it could be a completely new social construct, however, not without some kind of benefit in doing so.
I think this idea is my literal favorite meta-topic in all of btc. Voskuil mentioned it toward the tail of the part of the pod I listened to (somewhere btwn 20-30 minutes).
But hot damn is this conversation in any case WAY more interesting than what you described this other guy talking about.
Which other guy? If you're talking about Voskuil, you do realize that he's the Libbitcoin guy, right? Or maybe you're making fun of me, I'm not sure.
Either way, I agree the conversation is interesting -- I think this is the real heart of it, the nuances of the social game we play together when we decide something is money. And the generational idea, and the intersection of the two, amid the broader cataclysms.
I mentioned somewhere recently that this is the topic I want to take on for the next book-club-like thing, after Broken Money. I'll tag you when I do it, I hope you'll share your thinking there, it would be awesome if we could get broader interest on it.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 5 Nov 2023
Which other guy? If you're talking about Voskuil, you do realize that he's the Libbitcoin guy, right?
No I didn't lmao. Alright alright fine, I'll watch the videos. I think that's enough to motivate me to watch them. I was worried it was gonna be nothing but shitcoin propaganda lmao
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