Bitcoin is nowhere near being the 'base money' of the world... in my opinion because people aren't interested enough in it.

The technology exists, in my opinion and Lightning is 'good enough'... it's the laziness of crowds and the lack of intellectual curiosity, the willingness to 'do the work', and put in 'just a little more' effort to discover something and imagine something new.

In my opinion we are nowhere near the limits of 'throughput' for people to open Lightning channels, self-custody their UTXOs, and ultimately transact when and where they want to. We are at 2 sats/vb... and for a cup of coffee, or a beer much less dinner out, the channels can be opened.

In my opinion it's an educational, human interest, motivational, and if nothing else 'reputational' problem.

Too many voices have been centralized to Twitter/X... which frankly doesn't have a great reputation. And some of the most 'toxic' people, who you wouldn't want advertising your 'lemonade stand', are the absolute loudest on Twitter with their pro-Trump or alt-right or political BS.

Bitcoin isn't political... and the voices that 'make it so' on Twitter don't help things.

Like I posted earlier, I'm a liberal democrat and I still believe that Bitcoin is the best tool for individual empowerment - it's not about politics or what some "eat meat" a$$hole says on Twitter. It's your node and transparent rules that if the recent arguments have demonstrated are very difficult to change.

But you can't 'explain' that to someone in five minutes, much less on twitter in few characters next to crypto-bots or pro-trump Memecoin advertisements.

I'm not on Twitter, but obviously I care about Stacker News and its foward-looking incentives. Those in my opinion are worth fighting for.