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What's actually on the "road to irrelevance"?

1175 sats \ 18 comments \ @birdeye21 29 Nov 2023 meta

Tomorrow marks exactly one year since...the ECB published this hilarious piece.

Sorry @thebitcoinbugle, you can't possibly top this satire...

So, now that we've had a year to sit and laugh on this, what can you say is ACTUALLY becoming irrelevant?

369 sats \ 3 replies \ @kepford 29 Nov 2023

I love stuff like this so much. Every once and a while some bureaucrat oversteps and exposes the irrelevance of the state. The smart ones know when they are exposing this fact. Fun to watch when they mess up.

I'm waiting for the realization that they can't stop bitcoin to hit them. We, the plebs could stop bitcoin. I think this is what few get. If we stopped using it. If we stopped caring it would fail. But greed makes that highly unlikely...

For the early plebs like us it is more about freedom than greed but the later people come to bitcoin the more likely it is just greed. Or if that word hurts your feelings, their desire for self preservation.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 29 Nov 2023

It sucks for them that bitcoin’s incentives push people in the direct opposite direction that they want to push them

And ETFs are the best they got to stop us 🤣

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 29 Nov 2023

I do wonder if this ETF thing might get blocked by Biden. I mean, if I were him I'd block it. I don't think it is gonna be negative for bitcoin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 29 Nov 2023

Yeah, ETFs are a prime example of the state picking its battles.

217 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 29 Nov 2023

Well, the EU is looking less and less relevant, as former independent nations begin to realize once again the importance of self interest.

191 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 29 Nov 2023

I know many don't like nationalism. I don't as well but its all statism. As people decided they don't like living under an unaccountable super state they will push to leave the EU. I can't help but see this as progress. Nationalism is also bad. Here's an idea. The sovereign individual! But we aren't gonna just jump to that point. I mean, I can't see it.

My wife sighs when we are with people and someone brings up the threat of nationalism. I usually start ripping the narrative apart. I mean the average American has always been a nationalist. Its only in recent history that they've been programmed to think its a bad thing. To be clear, it is a bad thing but being a globalist isn't better. Most people worried about nationalism are clueless. At least in my experience.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 29 Nov 2023

My least favorite take is the "Christian Nationalism" fear mongering. I've been around evangelical Christianity my whole life and I can tell you. Since the 90s at least evangelicals have been what many call "Christian Nationalist". First off most US citizens are nationalists. That's both parties. The left is less so these days. But growing up everyone was a nationalist. Christians (like me) supported Bush. I think think Trump just exposed the political priorities of Christians. They will wink at his personal immorality because in their view he is standing up to the left. He's fighting for them. It exposes the position they place politics in their world view. It is above God sadly. I had this realization in the early 2000s. Realized that politics was an idol(small g god). So, this isn't new. Its bad but for different reasons than people talk about.

I will say it is a mistake to lump all Christians and even evangelicals into one box. I know many that reject nationalism, and statism. They don't place politics in the place of God. I also know progressive Christians that do the same thing conservative Christians do. They are just blind to it. It is interesting, if you look at the progressive era and specifically Woodrow Wilson you see the other side of Christian nationalism. The social gospel. Wilson's "faith" was a driving force behind his "making the world safe for democracy" thing. Its my view that he was a massive factor in setting up Hitler's Germany. But that's a thread for a different day.

105 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 29 Nov 2023

They’re eating themselves from the inside out

True of many places tho

374 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 29 Nov 2023

The euro, just like all fiat currencies, is becoming miserably irrelevant.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @NewsnNudes 29 Nov 2023

lovely hahahaha

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @newnym 29 Nov 2023

The orange woman is on her way to irrelevance.

42 sats \ 0 replies \ @thebitcoinbugle 30 Nov 2023

It's really difficult to compete with the satire written by the experts.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullama 30 Nov 2023

Any device cable that is not USB-C. Kids these days will never experience the frustration of having to try connecting a USB cable, realizing it is in the wrong side, flip it, try again, only to realize it was correct the first time.
Dedicated laptop charger slot. Most laptops these days are coming with USB-C charging capability. No need to use a special connector, you can simply plug a charging USB cable anywhere and it works.
Intel. When Apple moved towards their own ARM chipsets (which are amazing by the way) instead of using Intel ones, they started the slow end of this giant. Intel in my eyes is the new Nokia. It used to be the king of the industry, but slowly it faded away to irrelevance. Now Microsoft is pushing towards ARM as well. They released this ARM based dev kit some time ago, and now they are saying this: "Windows is preparing developers for an Arm future". Intel seems to be trying to do anything to survive, they tried making a Bitcoin miner, but they recently cancelled it. They tried doing 3D cameras with RealSense, but they recently cancelled it. They tried competing against NVidia with their own Discrete GPUs, but couldn't even touch NVidia's performance. I don't see a bright future for Intel.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 30 Nov 2023

Was disappointing to see Intel stop the Bitcoin mining plan, I had similar feelings about the company but that made me think twice...oh well.