I 100% agree with you. I think the best place to start is with merchant adoption at your favorite bars or the farmer's market. The way the current narrative has been shaping around bitcoin is store of value vs medium of exchange. It is important to support projects and wallets that are looking to enhance this, not riding the number-go-up train that everyone on x and youtube have been cheering for. Every week I try to educate a few people and get one vendor to accept. It definitely isn't an easy process!

L1 Bitcoin is not very usable for payments, esp. in high fee times, however on Lightning it's very usable, fast and comfy. Why not convince more people to use lightning network for payments and on-chain for saving?

The legacy custodians of the fiat debt based monetary system have slyly engineered things to make it very unlikely most people will ever use Bitcoin as a MoE. Why? Because Fiats monopoly position over MoE is the basis of its power. Look at how SWIFT works. Look at how any monopoly/cartel works.

The classical response of a monopoly or cartel to an innovative asymmetric new competitor is either obstruction or capture and control or a combination of both... With Bitcoin they have made sure that MoE use of Bitcoin is obstructed and to some extent captured and controlled.

How? In nearly all jurisdictions the use of Bitcoin as a MoE creates a tax reporting nightmare that very few people would ever want to impose upon themselves. So most people who do stack Sats do so as a speculative commodity SoV investment. So Satoshis original intention of creating a revolutionary decentralised P2P payments protocol alternative to the fiat MoE monopoly has largely, subtly been diverted. In addition to the near universal KYC mass data surveillance of Bitcoin ownership has been achieved by only allowing a small number of CEXes banking access and thereby preventing substantial growth of KYC free DEXes.

The ETFs further subtly entrench this narrative of Bitcoin being a speculative SoV commodity rather than a MoE. The legacy fiat debt slavery power brokers - bankers and governments - are well on their way to capturing and controlling the protocol...they have certainly successfully and slyly managed it away from its original revolutionary purpose.

I’m just sad that Jack Dorsey has not switched on the ‘pay with bitcoin’ function directly into the Square terminal yet. They have significant merchant adoption.

The biz owner doesn’t have to do anything as they can just convert the sats straight to $. And then of course there can be an option for the biz owner to stack the sats if they are sensible. They could also incentive the biz owners with lower merchant fees.

I hear this argument a lot from crypto people who like to ignore lightning. When lightning works it is cheap, instant and private (enough). IDK, cause that sounds like cash to me.

Maybe it could be better with better ways to pathfinding, having more liquidity and more decentralized.

money has many definitions and meanings. many many books have been written about money. yet, people are still struggling to explain what it is!

if we insist on describing bitcoin as money, and we cannot accurately convey what is money, that's going to be a slow and painful orange-pilling journey. yes, it's helpful to call it money, because so many people want "money," even though they cannot describe what it is they want (and what do they really want out of life!)

bitcoin is written precisely in code, no less no more, no caveats - there are occasional forks and updates, and they are all precisely written in the public repository of open source software. commands, 1's and 0's.

1 bitcoin = 1 bitcoin bitcoin is bitcoin money is a psyop designed to confuse.

i like breedlove's definition: attention allocation technology. if bitcoin is money, one would translate "i want money" as "i want to allocate my attention using bitcoin technology." everything that's not bitcoin is worth less attention.

don't try to make bitcoin into money or anything (you can't - it's gonna be whatever it is, and that's enough) - simply use bitcoin and figure out what it's good for. there are many creative use cases beside capital and currency, like communication and authentication. i can't wait to discover more use cases. it is deceiving to tell people that bitcoin's #1 function forever is and always will be money.

i have a dream, that one day the concept of money will become obsolete and we will simply use bitcoin.