"Most of them clung to the mark, the currency they knew and believed in, long after the eleventh hour had come round for the umpteenth time." - When Money Does
People use tap to pay and don't know who made it among most other things and the gov. has literally froze banks accounts.
Bitcoin is a very basic idea, and code, and you can just read it. It's not like there is some hidden secret.
These types of reasons people give against Bitcoin are not their real opposition. They are weak made up excuses for themselves to answer some other fear or desire.
McDavid contract news already filling endless hours of discussion and ready to do it for the entire NHL season.
Isn't their claim UTXO bloat? The change will help that and the trade off is opening something, OP_RETURN, that stops nothing anyway.
This is the basics of how I understand the argument. Like many I am just trying to understand.
Bitcoin is at 110k. While everyone on X panics I'm trying to find extra cash.
It's over for Core. Knots at 17% was a wake up for me. That is a lot! Core is soon on the verge of losing 1/5 their dominance. Garbage like the past 24h is solidifying it. That was ugly. I hear more casuals voicing their disgust.
Kick and scream all you want but you were exposed.
Bitcoin will be so much stronger for this.
It's bloat, you're right. That's the issue. The talk is about the content but there is a technical side to it. It will squeeze people out. Maybe it's one maybe it's half of everyone I have no idea there's no reason to increase any limits.
Nothing needs to have the size increased to do that if that were a valid reason.
It's important that the US and Canadian governments to own Bitcoin so they're less likely to block or ban it. It's a huge step for them to accept this. It's not to shoot price up it's to protect it.
The age verification check is one thing. The spoofing of it will be another. There will be completely fake pop ups and everyone will be conditioned to hand over their personal information. This is a hacker's dream.
You weren't wrong. It's more then Bitcoin itself. Even of it went away I would go back to fiat.
Trying to test out Bitchat and sadly finding out all my old phones are dead.
Now that I'm trying Nostr and Primal this giant space on X drives me crazy.
Trying this out.