If #Bitcoin was physical, but could do nothing more than it currently can. It literally had all the exact same capabilities it does now, but you could simply hold it in you hand…
It would be obvious to everyone that it is the most valuable opportunity in the world.
Satscards
Yeah but the crazy part is if it was physical and I could hold it in my hand I couldn't have just zapped you with it. So it's an even bigger opportunity than the one they would be recognizing.
Its truly wild man. We live in a world where governments kill people and erect barriers around our bodies and people don't see utility in being able to memorize a few words and restart your life on the other side of the globe under a more freindly regime. The banks create high cost barriers to moving money across lines in the sand and people don't see utility in being able to send value without their permission or grift to send. The credit card companies often make more profits than a small businesses margin on a tx when a consumer wants to buy something and people don't see utility in being able to transact on something like lightning for fractions of a percent. At this point anyone who says they don't see utility is either dishonest, incompetent or willfully ignorant.
Probably true! But that would reduce the asymmetric bet for the people with the ability to think in first principles and the conviction to believe in them.
THERE ARE NO COINS
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Only pointing out how silly it is that people say it has “no utility.” But would be certain it was the most incredible thing on earth if they could simply hold it in their hand.
It’s not a suggestion that this would be good, just how unimaginative those people are 😁
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Would these people have issues with software in general?
Clearly not the ones making use of software (app) to let you know (social media) via the internet (protocols) that #Bitcoin (protocol) has no utility.
Do ledgers have no utility? (Every money system)
Does weight of the numbers on the ledger increase utility? (Gold)
Do the people complaining about Bitcoin's utility have utility?
E=mc^2
It would still have to have zero weight somehow.
Oh for sure, I didn't think you were suggesting this as an actual thing. My thought was just that zero weight (i.e. non-physicality) IS the utility.
Information is as physical as light
How could something be physical but seizure resistant?
That’s not the point. I’m just saying that people who think it’s worth nothing because it isn’t physical, would realize that all of its characteristics are revolutionary IF it was. I’m saying their understanding is tainted by an ignorance or bounty and money, and instead rooted in something irrelevant.
Except it couldn’t teleport across the universe so there is no second best
It's a weakness of our primitive chimp brains that places a premium on being able to hold a thing to prove its worth. Indeed the most valuable "things" are not tangible (e.g. love, courage, integrity, loyalty, natural rights, TIME).
The "hold-ability" of a thing is really just a crude proxy for its underlying proof-of-work. Most just fail to make the connection.
People fail to grasp ₿itcoin’s raison d'être because PSYOPS convince sheeple that “money is the root of all evil” and the responsibility of self-custody should be kept at arms length within banking & custodial institutions as to not corrupt the soul.
This 👆
There’s an episode of a show called Poldark that shows 18th century English miners bitching when the mine starts to pay them in paper as opposed to coins. People will slowly realize intangible bitcoin is way better than intangible fiat.
