Americans often don’t understand the need for bitcoin because at least our fiat system is still limping along. Africans get it, Iranians get it, and the Argentinians get it because they have seen the endgame of what all fiat systems are eventually devolve into. They’ve already watched the movie and seen how the story ends.
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This. Our system is still mostly “functional” so people can’t conceive of needing a new system. Until things start to break down people will continue to function within the framework they are used to.
Americans have the benefit of being close to the money printer so they get some of the benefits. Some more than others, but with the middle class eroding the beneficiaries are becoming a smaller and smaller group.