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Well this blew up! Will definitely keep doing this every Sunday, *great* conversations going on here and a lot of tricky topics being discussed.
Love it, and yet another sign of Nostr being an amazing community that isn't bathed in religious fervor but is able to think critically and engage with meaning and respect.
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It absolutely would, combining "hold" mentality and a deflationary currency without credit generation would be a massively repressed economy.
Not to say that's necessarily all bad, but if no one spends, no one gets credit, and the supply is always decreasing it's, uh, not good for businesses đ
Absolutely, lots of work to do there and thankfully more and more focus on it as the original Bitcoin crowd grows up and has families đ
Something I need to work on and learn more about myself!
Usually getting a good hardware wallet and practicing "keep it simple, stupid" is more than enough security without sacrificing usability.
1. PoS promotes plutarchy, not democracy, as the wealthy elites easily control consensus.
2. It's difficult when something like this necessarily starts under technical community, but it is branching out and companies are starting to target non-technical users (like we do at Foundation) so that Bitcoin's freedom is not locked behind techno-elite barriers to entry.
I think you may have missed the point here đ
Absolutely not without strong and growing circular and parallel economies.
Right now most things have to be purchased with fiat, so we're inextricably tied to the fiat system. We can only break that yoke by building a circular economy that can exist wholly independent from the fiat system and regular economy.
That, uh, took a turn I didn't expect đ
I do think sometimes the difficulty of Lightning is overblown because people think they need to be a routing node, balance liquidity, etc. when they really just need a couple inbound channels for receiving and a few unannounced outbound channels for sending and call it a day.
I setup my channels once and haven't touched them in months!
1. đŻ, Something I'm extremely passionate about changing and working hard to do. Has to be easier and more commonly done.
2.i disagree on this point as I don't think politicians or "institutional investors" bring power to Bitcoin, only individuals waking up to the need for freedom and taking personal responsibility. Governments would love to simply co-opt Bitcoin and use it for their own gain, and absolutely could do so.
Absolutely, circular economies are a passion of mine and something that is *absolutely vital* to the survival and usefulness of Bitcoin long-term.
If we can't spend or use Bitcoin without converting to fiat, it's easy to choke off "non-compliant" uses.
One of the reasons getting past "hodl" and get to actually building circular economies is so important.
When we have free-flowing circular (and parallel) economies, Bitcoin quickly disseminates throughout the free economy without a cantillion effect, producing a much more free system where value is properly rewarded.
If we actually use our Bitcoin and reward those creating value, we'll not only onboard more Bitcoiners, we'll spread Bitcoin through a broad base instead of just concentrating it in the hands of a few!
Some interesting approaches with how you can batch transactions with Taproot, but I still don't see things scaling to a large % of the populace without block size increasing quite a bit.
We have quite a bit of wiggle room to grow along with hardware improvements and cost decreases, IMO, but I know that's a touchy subject đ
If your goal is every human having access to L1 Bitcoin, it's absolutely impossible at current block sizes.
If your goal is the relatively small % that wake up to the need for freedom and are willing to take personal responsibility, I think it's doable but will still be a stretch.
Both situations will likely lead to another blocksize war in the future, especially if you factor in future security issues with reliance on fees alone.
100%, and one of the reasons I push for better self-custody solutions so hard. Those systems have to be in place for this to be easily passed on and handed down to our kids over the years.
Not to mention it gives none of the freedom and power of Bitcoin!
We can't be freed by custodial or paper Bitcoin, only Bitcoin we hold the keys to and know how to use is a powerful tool.
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I'm one of the (seemingly) few who don't think this hyperbitcoinization ideal will ever come to fruition.
I also worry that if it did the societal collapse necessary in between would be far worse than people imagine and lead to untold suffering globally. One of the reasons I lean much more cryptoanarchist.