With respect, instead of lapping up the technically incorrect slop of the YouTube influencer-class: maybe people should put in the work to begin to understand what Bitcoin is and the very basics of how Bitcoin works BEFORE converting their life’s savings.
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With respect, I don’t think that’s how it went for most people and I don’t think that’s what Satoshi tried to create. If we’re saying only the people who understand bitcoin from a technical perspective should get involved then we’re saying that 99% of people in bitcoin shouldn’t be in bitcoin and then we don’t have a bitcoin network.
I don’t think everyone needs to be a software engineer, no. What I don’t know about code could fill volumes. I’m trying to catch up, a bit every day. We should all be working to improve our skills and technical knowledge on a consistent basis.
It’s been quite rewarding not having to ask my son to bail me out every time I get stuck on a technical issue. Many won’t put in the work and maybe they’re not ready for Bitcoin. That’s cool. Sovereignty is hard and people are soft.
After you’ve mastered the tech, you need to go to an Ivy League school for seven years and get a PhD in economics & become respected in your profession
Then, you have to abandon all of that, and become a crank Austrian economics
Warming up to the idea that there’s a political layer before the technical layer
I understand what you’re saying but if bitcoin is gonna be a tool for ALL people then it has to be understood that ALL people won’t know how to code. Having contempt for people that don’t is wild. It’s the same as central bankers looking down on everyone and saying ‘you don’t understand how our system works so you don’t get a say in it’. That type of attitude is snobby and elitist at best. I’m pretty sure that most people that use the internet don’t know what the code looks like but without the people you don’t have an internet. You just have a few people playing in their own sandbox.
With respect, we've already seen what happens because the same changes were already implemented to Bitcoin cash fork.
Core are just going to create a new fork, a new spam coin with a blockchain full of childporn like bitcoin cash