The incentives from my perspective are maintaining a node which is synonymous with the decentralized ethos of the Bitcoin protocol. If your question is based on a fiat monetary system that might be where I'm not getting your question. Being our own bank is priceless but it takes work, and diligence.
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Yeah, for sure, I'm just wargaming a hypothetical future where the incentives might be different (because on-chain use is not the default as it is now)
Got it. 🫱🏻🫲🏽 I suppose one way to view it is from how much skin we have in the game of our own financial sovereignty. But I think at that point we are past monetary number values, considering whatever degree we have on-chain and/or on layers 2 or 3, there will be some who are so late into this network, that they might be priced out of even running a node in their phones. Self Custody is not for the faint hearted, and it calls out a profound level of responsibility from within our own selves.
I think I missed your point on the future in regards to passing our bitcoin wealth to some heir/s a generation or two from today. If I did miss your point then it's a very valid one because how do we teach value to a younger generation that has no idea all the work you or I put into stacking Sats, daily cost averaging, studying Bitcoin etc. Every satoshi and every hour we stack and/or study is an investment in our own future. So, Yes! How do we incentivize that stack sats/HODL/DCA ethos?