I have the same conversation with gold bugs, Only 3% of money is physical cash, The CBDC is the sequel database at the fed, Just anyone not working at the federal reserve can participate in it without a bank intermediary. Also bitcoiners who want the fed to end. As much an anarchist wet dream that is, What will you buy your bitcoin with? You are the rare person who saved a million bitcoins anticipating the collapse of central banking in 2009? I am fine with the existence of FIAT currency, Most people are not technologically adept and financially literate enough to realize how to use bitcoin to outperform the Fed, To beat them at their own game. That’s what institutions are doing anyway. There are plenty of things central banks have created that I enjoy very much. Bitcoin is a useful tool in making me more money but it’s not my whole life, Just like dollars are not my whole life. Instead of promoting myself in a podcast or creating another financial product around bitcoin, I want to be living my life achieving my goals instead. My money working for me is something I only need to think about maybe an hour a day, There is more to life than money or bitcoin consuming me. I do admire the intellect of people building on bitcoin, Open source technology is creating a new global standard, And that’s fucking awesome! I also love a lot of people who have no clue that the fed is over its head in debt and they are just going about life loving their families and generally being good people, And that is mostly my experience in the 60% of the world still experiencing extreme poverty and social issues a government can not fix.