The nice thing about being 100% allocated to #Bitcoin is you are immune to FOMO.

Sit back and relax. You did all that you could. You are on The Way.

#Bitcoin is the Way.

Accent - BS. Maybe little too dramatic and theatrical here, but as long as it's perfectly understandable...

I'm very glad that Bitcoin isn't just a US bubble.

So true, I’m in between step 4 and 5 now

Mark Margolis, who played roles in Scarface, Breaking Bad & Better Call Saul, has sadly past away at the age of 83.

R.I.P Don Hector 🕊️

Is the voice-over guy some scammer or something? I remember his voice when researching scammers.

I've seen several times freelist management packages in projects I've worked on or looked at or used. You can turn off GC with Go, but at that point nothing will get deallocated, so everything has to be reused.

As such, it's not as well suited to embedded or kernel development.

There is an embedded version, "tinygo", that uses other memory management strategies in its much smaller runtime.

I really don't see there being that many cases that can't be faster built and easier to maintain with the help of GC though. Kernels, and minimalistic, embedded apps (think arduino).

The guys who invented Go were 30 year+ veterans of C and C++ programming, one of them even was the co-inventor of C, Ken Thompson. IMO, if they said use GC, then a lot of other people don't know what they are talking about.

Go, like Rust, it is practically impossible to have a stack smashing or other memory allocation error vulnerability. One you can pick up and run with, build something useful in your first weekend with it, the other, you will still be scratching your head 3 months down the track trying to remember everything you have to memorise to use Rust's memory allocation system.

The borrow checker is way too complicated. Give me a well tuned mark and sweep GC any day. Latency of concurrent processing matters a lot more on a system with heavy load and Rust has zero to add to the field regarding this matter.

Rust is just a fad language, just like C++ was a fad language back in 1992. It has precisely one feature distinct from C++, and cargo is basically a carbon copy of Go's build system with macros added, so, sorry, it doesn't count.

Sure, it saves compilation time, most of the time, but it's still at least 100x faster to compile the same app in Go, versus Rust, from scratch.

I doubt the trade-off of security and safety of the borrow checker really stacks up against the speed of C execution and hand-optimisation.

Variants, objects and templates are very expensive features to compile. Programmers abuse these tools all the time, leading to the endless, predictable bloat of lower throughput and higher resource consumption.

Rust does nothing towards teaching programmers to write simple, clean code. It just gives you a very hard to learn way of making an extra few fractions of a percentage of safety for maybe 10% throughput but gives you no reduction in latency and takes about 3 months for average programmers to master this most fundamental feature.

And like all macro-using, preprocessor using languages, it gives so much expressivity that learning how to do anything with the language starts with a long review of the myriad of options, instead of a solution that is precisely the fit and most concise and performant.

If our hearts are open and minds sound we will all end up at the same place.

On the other hand, #muun wallet works very nice! Fast, cheap, logical, safer (for a hot phone wallet).

Juraj is right! 💯

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BT influencoors finally got rugged.

As a Bitcoin educator, I think about this model that I included in the payments report a lot.

Many Bitcoiners think in terms of quantity: the more people we push through this funnel, the more may stick around = more adoption.

But adoption is not something that can only grow without cost. Turning people off has future consequences, so we need quality from all of us, not just the writers and podcasters.

A key part of this model is that it also shows the negative side: the people actively working against adoption. Their impact is difficult to measure, as there is no Google Trends for “people who didn’t learn about Bitcoin because they read or heard too many hysterical headlines”.

Many people don’t make it through this funnel, or are even interested in the first place due to poor past experiences with negative media or overenthusiastic Bitcoiners that sounded crazy.

Here is how I view the 5 layers of the funnel:

1️⃣ The mindset of the person in the discovery phase is critical. If they are too prejudiced and not open to learning, it can massively delay the point at which they get into Bitcoin. Their decision to proceed is heavily influenced by their background and personal situation.

2️⃣ If people are open to learning more, perhaps the first content they consume is positive, but in their research, they may come across different information and opinions from personal relations that sway their perspective.

It is easy to blame media and misinformation for people not getting through this learning phase in a positive way, but introspection by the Bitcoin industry is also important. A Bitcoiner’s passion for the problems they believe it solves can also turn people off by going too deep on certain topics or overcomplicating their explanations.

3️⃣ After learning a bit, whether that is one or many content pieces, people will gain a certain perception of Bitcoin. This time, all of the above factors influence whether they will proceed and go deeper.

4️⃣ When it comes to usage, sometimes the journey from discovery to usage can be just a few minutes with the right person as a guide. Quickly letting people experience Bitcoin can be an effective tool to give people a wow moment, but it only works towards adoption if they commit to a learning phase after. “Private” usage is the highest ranked here, given that maintaining your privacy on Bitcoin requires significant knowledge. This is also the case for using Bitcoin as the standard money in your life.

5️⃣ After having used Bitcoin, some people decide to take a certain role in the space, either personally or professionally. Some become users of Bitcoin. Many go a step further to actively educate others around them, and some become builders who maintain and accelerate the movement. There are also critics and detractors who try to slow down Bitcoin adoption.

Because of how hard it is to make it through, and we all know this, I’m a strong believer in focusing on quality. On making sure as many educational interactions are high quality and delightful, rather than reaching as many people as quickly as possible. I’m going to spend a lot of time helping people who struggle to explain Bitcoin to people close to them in the coming years.

Would love to hear your thoughts on the model and if you’d make any changes!