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Today's text was longer, and I didn't find it empty, it was just difficult for me to identify the characters and be able to follow the development.
We still prefer to hear what we want to hear, we have influencers that most blindly follow, and most bitcoiners can't even read code. Under these circumstances, how can we even pretend that "don't trust, verify" is anything more than just a meme? Bitcoin is not built on trust, but trust is the scaling solution for bitcoin's social layer.
At this point I have to say that to unravel this idea into several points of view that can lead to a "We are equal" "We are not equal" in the same sentence. I'm suspicious of anyone who has or calls themselves an influencer or a guru. I imagine that bitcoiners must be like that, because I don't consider myself a bitcoiner because I haven't achieved certain goals that I think are important. Even so, I consider myself an excellent candidate, especially when I see the most varied types of self-proclaimed "bitcoiners" out there, those who love using USDT to spend sats, those who love having a little bit of shitcoin with the promise that it will go up, and those who are HODLing and don't care about using it as currency, they just hold it to exchange it for shit in the future, and in 100% of cases, no one has even read the whitepaper.
About "don't trust, verify", in my opinion, it's a meme when said by people who don't practice it, especially by those "bitcoiners" I mentioned before. In fact, I'm in the group that doesn't understand the code because I'm not a dev, but I tried to read and try to understand with the help of videos and texts that explain each of the elements. What I mean is, it's not a meme if it's said because of practice, just as you can't say we're no different from normies when many still have standards and follow them.
I'm going to read the materials you linked in the post and that's a positive point, materials that expand on the central idea of ​​the post.
The text is long and I tried to be succinct. I hope you read it.
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