Two people hold Bitcoin. One hates central bankers, and the other loves them. They both experience NGU. But they both “protested” the old system by holding Bitcoin. What’s the difference? The ~intention~ from which they proceed. And to me that’s some neomarxist nonsense. Sorry but I don’t understand the difference.
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It’s very attractive to the libertarian viewpoint if we can explain it properly.
I’m better with code than with words though.
Satoshi Nakamoto, November 14, 2008.
And look...I'm a cheap skate. Of course I would rather spend less sats today than I did in early October, but the volotility will continue until people understand what this movement actually is.
i think there's more to being a bitcoiner than just holding/speculating on it, i think the ones who hate central bankers are trying to build and participate in a new, bitcoin native economy and choose bitcoin as their money, whereas the lovers are trying to enrich themselves in the old one
yeah the pure speculator just wants another fiat on-ramp in disguise; the actual bitcoiner is wiring boards, grinding pleb markets, spinning lnbits servers, chiseling out a permission free economy away from banker claws. real test: are you earning&sending btc without touching legacy rails? if yes, you're doing the protest. if no, you're just gambling.