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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @SwapMarket 5 Jun \ parent \ on: Obvious question is Obvious: Where the hell is everyone??? bitcoin
Why does it bother you? I don't care how other people use Bitcoin. For my goals, it functions perfectly and with low fees.
Network effect has been blocked.
You ignore this out of arrogance or ignorance.
Bitcoin has been redefined into a harmless speculative commodity plaything held and controlled increasingly by bankers and only used as a MoE on the very margins and almost always outside the the law.
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yes, I use it outside of the law, as intended. freedom borderless money is not subject to any government's laws. only hardcoded consensus rules. most official businesses are enslaved by the system and cannot be free. same for most individuals.
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I do too but my point is that most people are not using it regardless of the legality of using it- they do not even see/understand the importance of money free of censorship and state control.
I would love it if more merchants in my city accepted Bitcoin but they don't- because nearly all Bitcoiners here are stacking for speculative gain, not for MoE freedom...and if they use any of their sats for MoE they will almost certainly be breaching tax law unless making detailed record and collation of all expenditure.
The legal MoE use of Bitcoin has been made so absurdly inconvenient as to effectively obstruct any chance of mass scale adoption.
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The Empire Strikes Back. Spend non-KYC, fuck the taxman, don't get caught.
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Yes, a small number of us will do that- but too few to ever gain the scale of adoption required to build a strong network effect.
Convenient lawful Bitcoin MoE use has slyly been effectively obstructed without the need to explicitly ban it.
Thus practical MoE is restricted to a minority who are prepared to break the law.
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