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we’ve failed to serve those people who need bitcoin the most.

listen to how people in gaza struggle with using their own money and turning it into cash to buy food and basic supplies under israeli occupation.

bitcoin should’ve fixed this. we need to work harder.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/20/nx-s1-5547307/gaza-palestine-israel-shekel-cash-shortage

Alvaro 3mo ago 💬 1

From my non-expert understanding, I’d say the issue is not a technical one (Bitcoin, Lightning, Cashu etc work as intended), but rather an awareness one.

We’re so early that even the “then they fight you” phase has not even really started.

No wonder, that the 90+% of the global population who either follow legacy media or don’t follow media at all don’t know about bitcoin / thinks is some kind of scam.

Having said that, it must be horrible to live in a place with a dying or dysfunctional currency. It must be hell if that is paired with war

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thosmos 3mo ago 💬 1

Do you think Bitcoin has already been reduced in its usefulness as a means of exchange, as digital cash?

Alvaro 3mo ago

Not at all. In fact, it’s only getting better, both from the technical side - e.g. Lightning- as well as from the UX side

The “problem” is that a rational economic operator will save in the harder money and spend in the weaker one, unless otherwise required (e.g. censorship)

My hypothesis is that we are still one or two generations early to see global bitcoin adoption as a means of exchange and unit of account

But what would I know. I’m just an npub