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Bringing back #Bitcoin #SkepticismSundays 😎

One of the things that showed me the intellectual honesty of the Monero community and helped to force the community to stay grounded in reality and always laser focused on their core ethos was their weekly "Skepticism Sunday" Reddit threads. These threads allowed the community to come together, ask hard and skeptical questions about the design of Monero, the privacy provided, the economic approach, and much more.

In my time in Bitcoin I've never seen anything similar, but the nuanced and high-signal crowd on Nostr seems like a perfect fit to fire things up and see how it goes.

The goal of this thread (which I'll post weekly on Sunday's) is for discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Bitcoin. Things like what makes it difficult for you to use Bitcoin, what pain-points you have, etc.

NOT the positive aspects of it.

Discussing things with a critical thinking approach and level-headed discussion helps us learn where Bitcoin and its community can improve and go from there.

P.S. -- I try to take a break from social media on Sundays so I will follow up and reply whwre I can tomorrow!
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punk 1y ago

I like this idea. At least, I’m interested to see where the conversation goes.

I’d say my main pain point in actually using bitcoin is tracking everything for purposes of proper tax reporting (USA).

Obviously there is software that can help with this, but it’s still mostly a manual process and it sucks.

Now I’ve heard about acquiring non-kyc, whirlpool, utxo management. But I would still pay my taxes because…THEY are watching me…

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makeasnek 1y ago

Agreed. It's a nightmare. We need to lobby our elected reps to adopt similar rules to other currencies where if you trade less than $x a year you don't have to worry about capital gains. There is an excellent group working on this here https://www.standwithcrypto.org/