nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx I LISTENED TO YOUR PODCAST AND I HAVE SOME CONCERNS RE: MINING. I WILL STATE THEM QUIETLY, THOUGH.

I'm playing devil's advocate for the normie bitcoin adopter here, so bear with me. If mining and node-running is good for Bitcoin, and I need to do it, what is my incentive? If I lottery mine on an $1100 8-ish TH node/miner, I will likely never get any sats or fiat. If I join a pool, I may get paid, but now I'm part of the problem. So I'm supposed to pay in fiat for the hardware, pay in fiat for the electricity, and never see a fiat return or trade the energy for sats. The normie bitcoiner then says GTFO, this is stupid, I'll just keep it all on the exchange or take my pants off for zaps.

How are we going to talk 10 million people into doing this? "For the good of the network" doesn't mean anything to someone who thinks Bitcoin comes from Coinbase. Lightning payouts will help, but who's doing that right now with no KYC, etc.? I do think the node/miner combo is the way, but only if the buyer sees KYC-free sats trickling in regularly. Bitaxe is another good entry point, but we're still basically selling a $150 donation to the network. That's a lot of buts.