I feel you are very optimistic.
this is so wrong. go to el salvador or any of the places on this map that has high density of bitcoin-accepting businesses
www.btcmap.org/map
if you scroll around you'll see quite a few hotspots, eg https://btcmap.org/map#13/46.00261/8.93870
i've been in bitcoin for a while and i can tell you in the context of bitcoin's history this is an absolute explosion of growth - driven mainly by lightning fwiw
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That's not incorrect but I invite you to consider the evidence I am proposing as well!
El Salvador is a very specific case.
In Europe it is impossible to live with Bitcoin because it is not accepted anywhere.
If you have to travel 400 km every day to use your bitcoin it is not very practical.
The only thing we have in Europe without KYC is bitrefill.
But actually I have another reason beyond business adoption that I am optimistic.
I have recently travelled quite a bit, and for the first time met bitcoin communities in person. This is a very new thing for me, they simply didn't exist during most of the time I've been in bitcoin. And the wonderful thing is, they are into bitcoin not to get rich, not because they get the tech.. ..they are into it because they have found out in their lives that the governments are not to be trusted, and that they need a way to resist them an build a future for themselves.
Most of them discovered this during covid, and when they looked around - in genuine desperation - to find something to give them hope, they found bitcoin.
I thought when I met actual bitcoiners most of the talk would be about the tech, or closely related, or the price maybe or adoption.. ..but it's mainly about the fact that something is rotten in the western mainstream, and they don't trust their kids to be part of it, and they want to build a new world based on freedom and respect.
Many of these people had taken significant risks to choose their paths - including selling all fiat property, moving to places like el salvador. They are doing it because they are completely committed to freedom.
And the wonderful thing is, they all know now they're not alone. I'm not alone. We are a global family and we are rising up..
So yeah, I am optimistic 😆
Totally agree with you
i turned maxi in part because of the scamdemic, i was always interested in a lot of "conspiracy theory" stuff and it makes sense that a lot of bitcoiners are because bitcoin was born out of a movement that was against the control of secret police over society and against secret cabals of bankers, what flipped the switch on me finally was the great crypto crash of 2022, as i was just getting into my first year full time working as a crypto dev
i wish i could get more into the local areas of bitcoin community but i don't really want to live in any of those places lol... i am in madeira because of this but i hate madeira
There were never any conspiracy theories, just critical thinkers questioning what became facts.
preaching to the choir
and i like to think stay on the cutting edge of the important stuff... big focus right now is space weather for me, i think this is of way underestidated importance and the best part is it totally shows a way to debunk this fake eco agenda cult
Please feel free to post links, I’m always open to info
mainly at the moment the highlight of my day is watching this pod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klrscLgxkD0
i was following that Donut Factory guy for a while but i am inclined to think that most of his stuff was nonsense, but it was interesting
i don't follow it closely but stuff relating to Atlantis and ancient egyptian artifacts and other archaeology that hints towards this, the book The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya really opened my eyes to a lot of really interesting stuff, got me to read things like the book of Enoch and other apocrypha, Hair of the Alien - this stuff also relates to the space weather because the history of Atlantis and the War in Heaven is connected to the disaster cycle and is referred to in especially Enoch, and there is also mentions of things in ancient Hindu books and lots of other stuff, i would dig more into it if i weren't quite so busy with my dev work
Fascinating. I’ll have a look thanks
Chris Horlacher and this solar storm dude are both scammers, selling you fake space, invented DNA helices and aliens.
Reading The Apocalypse of Yajnavalkya , Enoch, Ezra 2, etc... only lead my more away from these sort of guys and toward a more Biblical history, cosmology and morality.
If you can, I recommend taking a holiday to el salvador. You will meet people just like you, with very similar stories and history.. It's incredibly wholesome!
What's wrong with madeira?? I was literally thinking of visiting there..
noisy people, really noisy noisy people
plus transport is a nightmare because of the terrain - i just plop myself down somewhere and if it's more than an hour on foot i won't go there more than once a season probably