Please help it make sense. Bitcoin gets SO MANY things right. Censorship resistance? Check (I've never seen any stories of actual censorship of bitcoin transactions in the wild)

Protection from monetary debasement? Check. Reduction of counter-party risk? Whether it be governmental, regulatory, environmental, location-specific. Check. Take bitcoin (your bitcoin) ANYWHERE in the world.

Low fees for transactions? Check (they're only 35 cents currently even if they might go up over time) Extreme security? Yes seed phrases with mainstream software and devices cannot be hacked or guessed and are generally more secure than ever before.

So the question is? What are people waiting for? Bitcoin is logically and conceptually the best store of value (SoV) in the world, it is digitized capital, independent of any nation or national borders, and can be taken anywhere just by memorizing random words. It is a fraction of a percent of what people currently use for a SoV (stocks, bonds, real estate, gold, art, property) and yet it is SO MUCH better in many regards.

Imagine being a civil society advocate, an anti-regime journalist or writer, a local businessperson or politician, or just 'regular person' (common pleb) for which bitcoin has WAY less risk in holding, provided the seed phrase is kept secure than SO MANY other assets or other forms of savings. The regime takes your bank account? You're safe. They take your business? You're safe. They 'print money' or inflate the currency? (like everywhere?) You're still safe because there are only 21 million bitcoin. Take the bitcoin across borders or send it to friends or family, create a singlesig, a multisig, sell it non-kyc on a saturday night... it's up to you it's digitized capital. Create a lightning channel and accept donations (through Bolt 12, LN addresses, or invoices) or share your thoughts for Bitcoin donations on Nostr or places like Stacker News :D

Want to use bitcoin for remittances? Sure go ahead get a lightning wallet (Zeus, Pheonix, or run LND or CLN yourself) and send it to friends or family. Then they can sell/exchange it or use it for goods or services, even without an 'on-chain' transaction.

It can be easily verified, unlike gold, with a maximum supply and predictable and verifiable inflation rate (future production rate). It can be mined at home (maybe not profitably) but technically it still can especially with the use of lightning withdrawals for pleb mining with bitaxes etc.

It has the LIGHTNING network where money can be sent instantly and cheaply anywhere in the world, only to be settled later (like a bar tab), and you can run a lightning node AT HOME. Always on, reasonably secure (maybe not for LARGE amounts but certainly enough for day to day spending). The LIGHTNING 'bar tab' can be coupled with websites for SPAM prevention, to improve the quality of websites and social media and forum content, and you can get 'tipped' and tip others, instantly, for a fraction of a penny! Credit cards cannot do this it is the digitization of capital and of gold.

The anonymity set of bitcoin is large enough to provide 'forward' privacy using coinjoins (for low/reasonable cost) with joinmarket, not to mention other yet-developed or soon-to-be-developed protocols using social media or nostr or decentralized coordinators. So by all means coinjoin away!

So why don't people get it? Bitcoin should be ten times more expensive. Look at what people pay for overpriced cars, houses, stocks even... that don't have ANY of these qualities. The cars lose value and houses 'go up'... but they are fully capitalized, bitcoin is not. In fact bitcoin is seen is 'risk on' or 'risky' because it's volatile. Ok well what else was volatile in the past? Amazon stock in 1999. Bitcoin is so exciting. And yet it's such a small asset relative to stocks, bonds, real estate, gold etc... it's logical it would eat (at least partially) many of them and SHOULD be considerably more expensive.

The logical conclusion is to sell (?) or never touch 'crypto' which is 99% scams and unregistered securities and instead save in Bitcoin long term. Yet when everyone inevitably starts doing this bitcoin would have a MUCH larger market cap and you could natively store Bitcoin on an iphone/through Apple. 'Crypto' should die a quick and painless death, generally speaking, as it's a waste of time, and Bitcoin should be considerably more expensive. It doesn't make any sense.

Why don't more people see this? Bitcoin is probably the greatest asset/technology mix in a generation, maybe in many decades.