Success is pretty much inevitable at this point.
Every country on earth would have to shut it down via reg capture. What do you think the real odds of that are?
Regulatory capture (as mentioned in my post) would just push things back.
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No, every country does not.
All they have to do is make it difficult to use in a self-sovereign way in *your jurisdiction* and offer a convenient alternative (which will just happen to be custodial)
They are already working on that.
99% of people will give up their UTXOs over a few years if they start to tighten the screws in a real way.
and success is certainly NOT inevitable.
Thats pure hopium.
Your gonna disintermediate the bankers who run the world and "success is inevitable"?
lol
That's just your opinion though. Not reality.
You're making predictions based on hypothetical scenarios.
None of this has happened - so stop acting like you can predict the future. You have no idea what regulations will come and what people will do.
How many bitcoiners do you know that would voluntarily give up their UTXOs?
Because 90% of "bitcoiners" already use custodial solutions rather than learn key control.
and most of the remaining 10% cheer that on because they make the NGU happen
Also
its incredibly naive to think bitcoin is going to disintermediate the bankers who run the world without violent pushback.
also also,
LOL the hypocrisy in "stop acting like you can predict the future"
simultaneously with
"bitcoin is inevitable" 🤣
That thesis is based what has happened - not what COULD happen or what you think will happen. Important difference.
Also, you don't need the sarcastic LOLs and 😆 bullshit.
Speak like an adult not a kid who just got their first cell phone.
Also also. What's even the point of your argument here? Bitcoin is not inevitable? How does that changes things for you?
And I'm not sure where you pulled the 90% from but with only around 5-10% supply of bitcoin on exchanges, I think that number is a little exaggerated.
Where does that number come from?
All thats happened is some VCs and fiat degens have bought bitcoin
and y'all are already popping champagne and screaming "freedom money"
also
GFY
I'll talk however the fuck I like and use emojis if I fucking want to
but I understand you have to make the conversation about the person instead of the subject at hand when they point out your hypocrisy 👍
You're saying that the only people who hold bitcoin are VC funds and degens? wtf?
And who is screaming freedom money?
Again, the thesis is based on what has happened and the current situation.
Your thesis is what you think might happen. Big difference.
Also, I didnt mean to trigger you.
Saying fuck three times in a sentence doesn't really accomplish anything.
You can type the word fuck to a random person through your phone. Look out!
I did not say only VCs and fiat degens hold BTC.
But if you think 1T USD came into bitcoin from plebs,
I have a bridge in Brooklyn you might be interested in.
The whole point Saylor is making
is that the REAL MONEY is institutional regulated money.
*I'm saying these people are not on our side and they will actually subvert bitcoin first principles.
A thousand times
NO
Bitcoin got this far by preparing for adversarial scenarios and thinking critically about tradeoffs.
it's lazy to think that it's perfect and inevitable.
it isn't. everything has tradeoffs and attack vectors.
Bitcoin maximalism is an attack on bitcoin.