I'm really good at what I do in healthcare. I don't want to spend time away from that working on the thing I use to buy coffee. I just want it to be reliable, secure, and private. I don't feel I get that using massive custodians. That's hardly better than the legacy system. A bit maybe. But noncustodial has been a total shitshow for me.
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We āare still earlyāā¦expectations for bitcoin to operate like the modern financial world out of the gates isnāt realistic. Remember when ATM cards first came out and there werenāt any ATM to be found, or when you did they didnāt connect with your own bankās network? Even today, try depositing cash into an ATM that isnāt your own bankās branded ATMāit doesnāt work.
Like most people, you donāt want to think about money from a perspective of logistics and mechanics. It should just work, and thatās fine to view it that way, but improvements are ongoing, especially at this point in time.
What led me to respond to your post was the idea of not needing to know how privacy and security works in order to use it, is a common principle. Few can explain how a common door lock works, or the tines of a key, and yet the still they carry keys and use them every day. *The principle of the key* is #modulo's raison d'ĆŖtre.
The UX of #bitcoin and the #lightning network isnāt seamless, but we have come so far, so fast, I am optimistic.
I fully admit that it truly could just be that my expectations are too early. And some of that comes from what I hear people saying versus what my actual experience shows me. I think there's a lot of cope preventing reality from being faced fully, which likely slows things down and could lead to centralized services winning out. Maybe that's natural for emerging tech. This is the first time I'm living through something so radical. I remember pre-smart phone days but even that isn't the same.
I wanted to zap your response but got this. š I'm working on keeping an open mind and laughing where I can to enjoy the process of being an early adopter. It's hard sometimes, but what else can we do?
