My friend I have sent bitcoin without the internet. No, you don’t need the Internet to interact with the network. So yeah, it is that big.
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The bitcoin network cannot exist without the internet and if you sent money you used the internet regardless of how the transaction was delivered.
I can send you money with a tx on an SD card but if you want to actually broadcast it you need the nodes and the miners and they cannot exist without the internet.
Users are different from nodes and miners. Yes obviously the Bitcoin network relies on the internet,(although being able to run on mesh networks, satellites, or air gapped transactions) but we’re talking about actual users and those numbers will dwarf internet users.
You don’t need the internet to send or receive bitcoin from a smart phone.
As of October 2024, approximately 67.5% of the global population, or about 5.52 billion people, were internet users. 99.9999% of all bitcoin users are also internet users. Your math doesn't add up.
And as 2024 there are 8.19 billion people and my argument is that the remaining 3 billion of people still exchange goods and services.
What free and open source money will they be able to use? All fiat currencies will be dead over the next 15-30 years.
Right, but what you said was "we’re talking about actual users and those numbers will dwarf internet users".
So explain to me: If 2/3 of the world are internet users, how is the 1/3 remaining going to dwarf the that?
If only half of those people become bitcoin users (1.5 billion) that is massive. That’s the equivalent of total iPhone users global. You want to cherry pick my “dwarf” adjective, fine. Bottom line, I stand by my argument that #Bitcoin will “dwarf” Internet users.