I use sats as electronic “cash” just like satoshi explained it and Samourai wallet lets me achieve that because there are no other equivalent stack with postmix tools.

If you carefully read Satoshi's white paper titled "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System" you realize that we are increasingly in a world where we are taught to be suspicious of cash, that those who choose to deal primarily with physical cash are shady at best or criminals at worst. Make no mistake, this is a war, and the victory condition is a state where ALL transactions are tied to an identity that leaves an audit trail for law enforcement and tax authorities.

The war on cash is a real thing. The benefits of a cash free society are too great (from the perspective of central bankers and the state) and make no mistake the war on cash is a WAR ON YOU!

Bitcoin represents a Serious threat to the war on cash. Without firm control the central banker vision of a cashless society can be severely undermined with Bitcoin.

Now Satoshi's white paper title, p2p electronic cash brings system that Satoshi described as electronic cash and it was successful - it created the conditions for an electronic analog to physical cash.

For the first time ever, data could be cash. And data is analogous to speech, and speech always wants to be free.

Unfortunately from the very early days Bitcoin has been painted as "a better money" but this is flawed and why #Bitcoin is being actively attacked in the war on cash, tied up in 'Anti Money Laundering' regulations.

There are no 'coins', no 'notes', no 'currency units'. There is only a chain of digital signatures. There is no issuance of currency. When a new block is found a new special digital signature is created. The signature announced publicly to anyone who will listen.

They are no wallets because there are only keychains that hold public/private key pair data.

Text. Data. Speech.

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I was thinking about it and I mean ‘cash’ more as a financial foundation system also, Bitcoin ‘cash’ by still need to evolve, be found.. maybe it’s lightning, but whatever it is will be a derivative of Bitcoin, not necessarily bitcoin directly. It’s like treasury bonds, people don’t use treasury bonds for everyday ‘cash’ use.

Yes as long as bitcoin is the underlying standard, you can build payment systems on top of it and being pegged to BTC. That prevents money printing and maybe BTC does not need to be the layer where things are settled on day-to-day activity. Or its actually LN that is this second layer