A hilarious normie moment on LinkedIn this weekend:

The Wall Street Journal posted an article about the bitcoin ETF approvals. Of course, it was paywalled and requires a $10 weekly subscription to read it.

I commented:

It would be great to be able to pay for the content of this single article using bitcoin, as opposed to a subscription.

And (I shit you not) someone with a PhD in computer science (according to their bio) replied:

Why? What would make it great?

Waiting several hours to see if the transaction goes through?

Complex management of your bitcoin address?

I think you're confusing 'bitcoin' with 'micro-transactions'. And if there is one thing bitcoin is totally unsuited for, it's micro-transactions. Only 8 transactions per second, shared between the whole planet. Nobody wants to wait hours or days or weeks to find out if a micro-transaction payment cleared on-chain and they can finally view the article.

My response:

Have you not heard of the Lightning Network? It's not 2015 anymore.

Just unbelievable. 🤣