Wishful thinking preferred over action plan.
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Not sure what you mean, but I don't personally prefer wishful thinking, on the other hand there can't be a "plan" in a distributed system. The best one can do is think about the problem, possible solutions then cooperate with others to build these solutions.
My current thinking is; maybe if Bitcoin can scale much better, it would be used more for internet commerce, at least as much as Tether is being used in developing economies, which makes KYC chokepoints less destructive.
If you think this is a red herring, and a scalable private Bitcoin won't make a dent, please explain what do you think the main problem is? And what do you think we should do instead.
I can make a counter argument to my own argument; people want fiat not Bitcoin because they have to pay taxes.
But honestly that doesn't make sense for Internet commerce, at the very least not for digital services where the entire market can be ungovernable because it is hard to observe and meter... stuff like VPSs and VPNs, SaaS and apps etc.
As for the real physical economy.. that is a bit more tricky, but at least where I live, even businesses that pay taxes, would still prefer taking cash, so why can't Bitcoin win if it had as good UX and as good liquidity as cash?
You need stable prices first, everything else is a gimmick.
I again disagree, but maybe because I am much more of a saver than spender.
But I really do think stable prices are not that hard nor do they need central authority, at the end of the day stability of Fiat is just a small part of businesses concerns, the rest is hedging against volatility of prices of inputs, which is not done by central planning, but through futures, and I see no reason why can't there be Bitcoin denominated futures for the inputs of the digital economies.
There is also over collatorization and somewhat trustless oracles like the UTXO analysis thing...
Anyway, I think it is doable, but I don't personally care about it that much, if you do, I hope you will work on it instead of thinking it is impossible to fix.
> I can make a counter argument to my own argument; people want fiat not Bitcoin because they have to pay taxes.
Because fiat provides stable prices.
> My current thinking is; maybe if Bitcoin can scale much better, it would be used more for internet commerce
That's the wishful thinking. Of course there is no plan, there's no way from here to there so there can't be a plan.
I disagree with the first one, I have seen more than my fair share of unstable currencies that still have a lot of demand, on the other hand I don't think it is too hard to make a stable coin that is not linked to a Fiat currency, the hard part is finding demand for it with no taxation behind it, but it is not important point so we can ignore this disagreement.
As for the second point, I agree there is no plan, and I don't think you can plan anything that big and vague vision, but big and vague things happened before and will always happen, organically and one step at time.
If you on the other hand of the opinion that there is some inherent in Internet economics that make a state necessary unavoidable intermediary, then that is definitely depressing but I don't fight reality, if you have a strong argument for that I can be convinced... I did my fair share of telling people that some things are impossible, it is OK.