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42 sats \ 7 replies \ @028559d218 17h \ on: Bitcoin has a Brand Problem bitcoin
I am a rainbow-flag-waving liberal democrat who voted for Kamala... and I obviously am a huge fan of Bitcoin (or otherwise I wouldn't be on Stacker News).
You can't guess my private keys, you can't tell me which node implementation to run, or how and where to transact... Bitcoin provides transparent freedom based on predictable inflation channeling energy.
Who wouldn't want some of that?
I realized what Bitcoin was before I ever used twitter, based on life experience and education... and people get it when they are ready. It has nothing to do with Elon or Trump give me a break.
I'm not a fan of Elon or Mr Trump, they aren't 'bitcoiners' anyway and people are let's be honest overwhelmingly resistant to Bitcoin today.
The real global Bitcoin adoption today is something like 1%, we are nowhere near 'mainstream adoption'. We're more like 1993-1994 of the internet. So how do we know when we reach 'mainstream'?
When Youtube Lightning comes out and you can easily and seamlessly tip your favorite 'content creator' on Lightning. Or email them. Or receive 'tips' yourself all to the same LNAddress. And it's basically as common as email is today.
THAT's when we have real adoption, sometime in the next 10 years.
The problem is that to use LN to pay for services like Youtube the vast majority of users would in practice be breaching their respective tax assessment obligations.
Youtubes legal team cannot and will not endorse such a massive enabling of tax code violation.
Fiats operators have very slyly succeeded in effectively obstructing mass adoption.
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Governments will get over it
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Why would they both deny themselves tax revenue and encourage and enable a competitor to their state sponsored fiat MoE monopoly?
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Because the citizens will demand it.
See - De-segregation
Women's Voting
Firearm's Rights
The US Constitution...
Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Assembly, Freedom from Unlawful Search and Seizure etc etc...
All of these things are/were inherently 'unpopular' with governments because they restrict their influence and ability to exert it
However the citizens demanded accountability in one way or another and so things changed. Like we see them changing now
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Yes I hope this will happen - if enough citizens demand it it is possible.
To get there we need to get people on board and understanding how a Bitcoin Standard economy could be much better than the current state imposed fiat debt slavery monopoly system.
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100% We need education