Sure, but on the other hand, from the report: "If only you’d get it together and make a tool we all can use."

It's called Bitcoin. Bitcoiners have been screaming from the rooftops for 15 years that it is the future of currency and freedom. The same people you say are being "left out" have consistently, year on year, rejected these tools. And for the groups they are discussing specifically, they dismiss it out of hand because they associate it with their political enemies. Nobody hates Bitcoin more than the left. I say that as somebody who is much more liberal than most here, and a frequent donor to FFTF. Somebody who has tried for years to get the exact same people this paper is saying are "left out" to consider Bitcoin.

These same users who say they're "left out" could have a self-custody wallet downloaded on their phone in five minutes, they won't do that, but they'll gladly spend 10x that time figuring out how to use Discord or Venmo or whatever the newest tool is and getting all their friends to use it. Even among those people who are interested in decentralized tech, they'll flock to lemmy, bluesky, or anything except nostr because "eew bitcoin".

I'm glad to see FFTF writing on this topic but frankly the report absolutely misses the mark. It pits Bitcoin up against a bunch of other cryptocurrencies and don't even mention or include lightning, which significantly enhances the privacy of Bitcoin use. Lightning has been around for 5+ years, it is where the *majority* of Bitcoin transactions take place. FFS FFTF, get it together. If I didn't know FFTF better, I'd think this was a fluff piece written by coindesk to try to paint a variety of the latest shitcoins as being on par with Bitcoin so they can convince people to buy them.

I think FFTF is expressing, more than anything, that they are frustrated that the Bitcoin and "defi community" somehow owes them something because they sided with us on some legislation? They're mad that the crypto community is cozying up to Trump? I don't love it either, but I understand why it is that way, it's the only party that has ever shown any love to Bitcoin. But this problem FTFF is complaining about? I don't see EFF whining about that, or the ACLU, or other similar orgs. This is an FFTF problem, not a crypto/Bitcoin/DeFi problem.

I'm all for valid criticism of Bitcoin, this lays out a number of them, but to me it also reeks of "You didn't specifically use language to describe this product that places our ingroup above others, so it's not accessible". That said, you gotta meet users where they're at, Tor, for example, I think has done a great job of this. We shouldn't dismiss criticism out of hand, Bitcoiners are every day making it easier to use and more accessible. I hope we keep doing that.