Not an original opinion:
Of course, Bitcoin has both qualities. As an American, I don’t need it to be money yet, because the world wants dollars more than Bitcoin at present. Our ice cube is melting more slowly than the others for now, and Bitcoin is still too volatile for poor people’s near term needs. Therefore, I anticipate the world will go through a dollar stablecoin phase before the Bitcoin-is-money phase.
Again, you mean. Bitcoin was money. And as a 13th Generation American whose ancestor brought and bought with gold here,, I can see clearly how The United States of America has handicapped Bitcoin much like it has America.
Mine, too. Jamestown 1620.
The dollar is the global reserve currency, and it’s only reasonable that that status won’t be given up without a fight. And I’d rather it remain our fiat currency than any other country’s before Bitcoin becomes king.
Oooh! Mine 1640. He was 15 and sailed here alone from England. Knowing the testimony of my family's journey convinced me the bar must be raised on entry. I am so sick of hearing from people, and most crushingly from East Indians, "It must be made easier for us . . . ". The comparisons between American onboarding and Bitcoin onboarding are amazing: the easier we make it, the weaker the pool becomes to the point the users bear no resemblance to the creators and pioneers. Make Bitcoin Hard Again!
Interesting! Plymouth Colony for your ancestor, given that timeframe, or where??
Mine was the16 year old youngest son of a British knight, who arrived in Jamestown as an indentured servant during a time of 90% mortality. Somehow, he survived, married his keeper’s daughter after his indenture, and lived into his 40s after establishing a tobacco plantation. Tough does not begin to describe America’s founders.
His name was Thomas Barnum and he settled in Connecticut. My maternal grandparents assured through their coming together that I be born of adventurers, tricksters, pioneers and smugglers. I am such an AmeriCAN. 😜
Oh and given I was the first bitcoiner who was debanked and removed from the intellectual and creative pool, with children who did not bear the mark of a SSN, yeah, it was an original opinion. 😜
