I haven’t even one time thought that nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m and nostr:npub12uslmhx4mezr3yk2uvnrlg9tpa40gc0ncwtdjx5y0ysmpm97d95qwy0jwd were bad for Bitcoin’s progress🤷
It’s a subtle differentiation but an important one. Think about all the times you watched nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m and Max Keiser and had this feeling in your lizard brain that something was off; just didn’t feel legit somehow? That’s your Statism and Corporatism sensor warning you about their incentives being wrong.
Trust these feelings. While you think that, overall, adoption is adoption and that is the utmost goal, goals attained by skewed incentives are falsely won and have consequences which are not necessarily beneficial.
I’m criticized time and again for saying that adoption MUST be organic and genuine to be the kind of adoption we hope for. For example - adoption as a result of social interaction here on #nostr by #plebchain is the purest and most genuine adoption I can imagine.
I didn’t think much of ⚡️ until becoming a Nostrarian. Now I have sats all over the place in at least a dozen wallets trying and testing all methods of slinging sats. I wonder why every single business doesn’t have a lightning address. This is the kind of adoption and evangelism that will persist and feel genuine to the uninitiated - the kind that will drive #bitcoin.
/rant 🤙🏻⚡️ nostr:note1f266yv9ae3yl7mrux05pcwhdd27nygvlw9wdfe7yjn0t40anfchsw4zcnw
Discussion
Perhaps you might consider that cheering (Max Keiser) for others (shitcoins) to fail at the hands of unelected bureaucrats whims might not be the most wonderful outcome? After Gensler and the SEC force shitcoins into compliance, what’s next for their busy hands? Perhaps you might consider that corporate sponsorship (@saylor) of ANYTHING might have unexpected results/unintended consequences? Look around you and see all the deformation of society at the hands or corporate interests? No?
I’m not a Marxist (far, far from it). What I’m saying is that, for me, adoption is about people, my people, the #plebchain denizens who are creating the circular economies outside the politically skewed fiat clown world - this is genuine and true adoption born of proper incentives IMHO.
Bitcoin is for everybody.