One thing that makes me sad this cycle is how many average people we didn't reach in time.
The "then they fight you" stage didn't last long enough and now our enemies are joining us before our friends.
I fear, as always, that the average person will be stuck fighting over scraps of sats while the rich, the corporations and the governments will gobble up all the coins using the money printer.
Bitcoin has clearly succeeded, but perhaps this is a failure for us as a community
It’s ok we’ll pay them in sats.
An arc only as large
Generally speaking, the mostly tech-savy people who make up the bitcoin community aren't good marketers. They're just two completely different skill-sets. Just as devs aren't typically also great designers. Perhaps we need to bring people adept at marketing to design a promotional campaign that effectively reaches the wider audience bitcoin needs to really take off.
I don’t think so. It still feels extremely early. There is still plenty of time for people to get in the lifeboats.
I think they have like 6 months max
I think some of it depends on how bullish you are long term, getting half a coin may be enough for a lot of people
Trickle down effects as well.
BTC is Pac-Man. It’s eating everything. In the end, that will benefit all. Deflation is real with sound money.
Mr. Jeff Booth taught me that.
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AINT NOBODY GETTING HALF COINS EVEN AT CURRENT PRICES, CHECK YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVILEGE SIR
What about half of a half coin?
$100/m*12m, not even 1m sats for the avg shitty saver.
what privilege, I come from an immigrant poor as hell family lol
do I believe a person can earn half a bitcoin by working hard over the next four years
yes, yes I do 😁
🤔🧐🤔
Just running some 4 year projected back of the napkin math here annnnnnnnnnnnnd.
Nope. 👎
You damn privileged Cubans & your sunny weather & excess cash. 💰
I can see the fight you stage continuing longer.
Sheep do not desire to be lions.
The “then they fight you” phase is not over.
Bitcoin will always be the people's money. If people treat it like fiat, it will find it's way to the correct holder. Just my 2 sats.
The question is..... Can they hold their stack and not spend it all. Would Corps fat and happy on Fiat be able to adapt to a Bitcoin standard?
I don’t even feel like we’re even in the they fight you phase yet…
It’s a pricing issue. Shitcoins “cheap”, bitcoin expensive. If corn was listed in sats, it would be bought up. But people may still compare to 1 bitcoin price :(
That's a very good point, and I think it's an example of the sort of smart marketing that could help attract more users. Perception is everything.
You got to some of us. Pretty grateful to be here. Can't help people that are not ready for it
We are back to good old fashioned saving where even “the poor” will get ahead down the road because their savings can’t be debased. Working hard and setting anything aside will be rewarded later in life. This alone is something to be happy about.
Yes and most governments/large corporations will waste their bitcoin quite quickly.
It’ll be wasted on green energy, electric infrastructure, or some other useless undertaking that will return capital to the rest of society because they won’t be able to borrow their way out. Very few organizations actually have any clue how to allocate capital correctly.
In the future they will have to work for sats like they do now for fiat, but they will not be rugged if they hold the keys and they will be able to save.
On the other hand, the people in charge will still be the ones that want to keep everyone enslaved for a big march to global extinction.
Can’t force people to listen or agree 🤷♂️
I tried and had a few takers, but most didn't bite. I wish I was able to convince more, but I gave it a good try. Maybe time will improve the results. We'll see...
it'll be easiest right before the next bear
For anyone trying to orange pill their friends I put together a basic starter kit here [1]. Some people like to have a set of notes and links to refer to at the start.
it’s a different voluntary, incentive system
many people don’t grant themselves the ability to voluntarily reason and outsource that to corporations, governments, etc. so - by choice - they would/will only move systems when guided by their chosen thought leaders
if their current incentive system is leading them astray then it is never too late switch
You can only lead a horse to water, you can’t make him drink.
they first need to acknowledge there is a matrix
Everyone gets bitcoin at the price they deserve, and what's going on now doesn't change that one bit.
Also, the "Blackrocks of the world" buying bitcoin doesn't mean that "Blackrock the entity" would own all that corn. They buy it for their customers, many of whom are - at the end of the day - the average people you talk about.
Those average people can later sell their "Blackrock wrapped bitcoin" (even if they do so at a premium) and buy real bitcoin, at least assuming that the legal contracts hold.
I agree with this but, no free money in a bitcoin world means the leaches who get theirs by printing fiat are on borrowed time. Their stack will always shrink unless they start contributing to society.
I was also really hoping for more normie adoption before cantillionaire acquisition.
If you weren’t orange pilled by Covid, I don’t think you will ever dive into the rabbit whole. Sheep will be sheep
I believe our enemies are not capable of retaining their sats in the long run.
They do not know how to build or work.
They only know how to shuffle, concentrate and rehypothecate.
Bitcoin is a natural distributor of wealth when medium of exchange status is achieved. Long time horizons.
https://echdel.npub.pro/post/bitcoin-nashville-2024-and-zechariah-s-flying-scroll-sp0sb8/
you cannot save people who don't want to be saved
The, then they fight you, stage lasted about ten years.
Natural selection always finds a way. Intelligence is always going to win out in the end. A very small relative percentage are “lucky”
