Gm Gm 🇬🇧 🇵🇹
Unpopular opinion:
The whole “bitcoin is freedom” argument tends to fall on deaf ears in Western Europe
We’ve had it good here for quite some time
Discussion
GM, Joe. Too comfortable. They'll wait till the shit hits the fan. Be too late then....?
Have a fruitful day.
100%. They can not end it. But try to regulate it to death.
Gm Gm
We are still so fucking early
I think it's amusing how Bitcoin seems to selectively reveal its true self to certain people & not others.
It comes back to Bitcoin being a mirror.
gm
Yes, that saying is stupid, as long as people still go to vote politicians that will always try to regulate Bitcoin...
american speculative assets...
Times change
GM Joe ☕️🫂
True, comfort can mute the signal.
But freedom feels ‘optional’… until the day it suddenly isn’t.
Bitcoin is the parachute you pack before the turbulence hits.
How's it "freedom" if it's not anonymous and private by default 🤣. It is a little bit of freedom.
gm britbro & tuga 💪
yeah EU's widely forgotten what "broke" feels like,fiat's comfy till the screws get cranked.
and @marius: chain analysis says "public by design", but a bag of xmr in your pocket *feels* like 90s internet again,plus Vector in DMs keeps the chat locked down 😎
That's exactly it. In Portugal (which I know you're in and me too :D) for example people have zero idea about what money is, how the Euro is the worse possible money for them, especially the non asset bearers (young people).
The older people don't understand that the Euro can end and thus that their economic advantage can end. They don't understand that their current relative power is due to artificial "scarce" German money, being able to own assets in pre-inflationary Euro (2008) and that if that ends we go back to 30% yoy inflationary Escudo like in the 1980s because Portugal is completely insolvent.
The young don't understand that the Euro has made them slaves to an unmeritocratic bureaucracy made in Brussels.
The only way forward for Portugal is Argentina. Then the people will actually open a book and read something.
If we go back to Escudo, the boomer class will suffer in 30% yoy inflation. People on fixed Escudo income (pensions, etc) will suffer massively.
Going back to the Escudo completely flips the power dynamics in Portugal.
And then it can actually become a learning experience for a lot of people.
Until it isn’t.
Not that I want that, but probably only something of the scale of a war in WE can create the awakening incentive for the masses.
It’s just too comfortable to live in a closed system , even at the expense of getting poorer, dumber, and less free than people outside of that system
It's probably financial privilege and not knowing anything about Bitcoin, other than the price, that they won't buy it, except for all the crash coins.
Western Europe is in a coma.
Western Europe is for the streets, honestly. Eastern Europe is where the motion comes from!
Western Europe is for the streets, Guatemala is for the sheets.
I’ll get my coat…
Sadly true, we're increasingly repressed, but most haven't noticed.
Our hovernments have been turning up the heat and boiling the frog with almost perfection. Even after Covid, most have no awareness as to what's happening
It's not unpopular, it's realty. And most that know about it just care about the ngu