Bitcoin is more about bringing society to the next level of the Kardashev scale. You need everyone living in an environment that fosters innovation, not just the freedom-seekers.
The reason it looks like a religion to you is because it is a group of many people wishing good on the world and outside the literal self.
Bitcoin is a very useful tool that will accomplish a lot if it does not fail. We see no reasonable possibility for failure.
Bitcoin does not fix everything. However, it fixes a problem for those who do not want undue taxation and regulation of their wealth. Many people have this problem.
By using Bitcoin, these entities take market share away from current values and replace them with Bitcoin's honest ledger.
This natural shift to the most sound form of money will restructure society to promote meaningful change. Remember - most people are inherently good natured.
People think that their degrees mean something are really just the people enabling more grifting. We will not be in a better place until real contributions are rewarded more than actions that support the establishment.
How do you propose we proceed? It is rather clear to me that any individual has significantly less influence on their community than institutions and business interests.
Bitcoin is a good tool. But it's just a tool. Beware the people who worship it as a savior and laud it as the solution to all the world's ills. They are fools.
Those super high network fees are making it a dirty tool.
Also yes
I don’t want to use the lightning network, I WANT TO USE BITCOIN.
Plain and simple.
I've been putting off consolidating all of my kids' UTXOs and transferring to a new HWW because of the fees right now
If you tried to run a business without a computer in today's world, you would be at a significant disadvantage.
Do not disrespect human ingenuity in creating solutions to problems.
"It's just a tool" is a good argument until you consider what is enabled by presence of said tool.
Bitcoin will probably be obsolete in 300 years. But it will go down in the books as a good journey.
