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I get all that. My concern is essentially that they can create a barrier to adoption by incentivizing merchants to only accept "clean" bitcoin. If adoption develops along those lines, it'll be a huge setback for "freedom money".
People need to start being rational and think for themselves, not simply do as told by big daddy gov.
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Sure, but they're not going to.
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One of the reasons why I'm an outspoken misanthrope.
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What outcome are you hoping for out of your misanthropy? Serious question. It's not clear to me what perpetual scolding is good for. Maybe it's fun? Hopefully that's enough for you, because that's all I think you (or anyone) are achieving with that strategy.
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I'm simply not a fan of the average human being, which has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
In regards to Bitcoin, I'm convinced of it on a personal level, and want to escape the coming financial shit show produced by the powers that be.
Maybe it'll be adopted en masse once the banks of the average Joe also hold bitcoin, or maybe it'll be a fringe-currency / escape hatch forever, who knows.
We're fifteen years in and the overwhelming majority still thinks it's a scam, if that ain't telling you something about the average Joe, then what?
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I'm simply not a fan of the average human being, which has nothing to do with Bitcoin.
In my experience people are both better and worse than are commonly believed. Sometimes I'm blown away by what humanity is capable of, and sometimes I feel like if we were all wiped out it would be broadly good for the larger universe in every way that really matters.
Those two views are hard to hold in your head without going mad, admittedly.
We're fifteen years in and the overwhelming majority still thinks it's a scam, if that ain't telling you something about the average Joe, then what?
Here's how I think of it: btc is such a giant mindfuck on so many levels. The amount of foreign ideas that upend other things is staggering. It's cliche to say that you can think about it and read about it for years and still not be close to exhausting it, but that's been true for me. Seven-ish years of reading and thinking and it's still really weird. This thread in one of the book club discussions elaborates on this. This one also seems relevant.
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I'm in that first thread! Either SN forgot that I zapped a bunch of those comments or I forgot to zap them.
Fifteen years is basically no time at all for a revolutionary technology to take hold. For instance, the steam engine was invented in the early 1700's and it took almost a hundred years for it to be adopted at a transformative scale.
People are fairly comfortable, so it's not reasonable to expect them to upturn their apple carts.
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For instance, the steam engine was invented in the early 1700's and it took almost a hundred years for it to be adopted at a transformative scale.
Yes. And think how obvious the benefits of the steam engine were, vs btc, solving a problem that many people in the West don't even think they have, whose most vocal advocates are, to most people, insane, using paradigms that make no intuitive sense.
I'm astounding that things are as advanced as they are, honestly.