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That's exactly why I'm asking the questions. History is pointing to something already - as far as I can tell. Maybe I'm wrong though. So, I ask questions.

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There are two kinds of transitions, all at once or progressively. As it stands, we are in a progressive phase where businesses and people who value their time and energy adopt the bitcoin standard. The abrupt way would be something a kin to el Salvador but they aren't looking too bad; how ever you feel about their dictator doesn't matter because it's safe and prosperous ( from the outside looking in at least).

I really do picture small businesses and owners of small businesses and individuals adopting a Bitcoin standard because they're not going to want to pay the high fees and taxes. It's the only thing that makes sense to anyone that wants to get ahead and beat the current rate of inflation, if you believe the current CPI Which is probably double what they've told us.

It's only gonna remain gradual, until people start catching on, and then it's gonna be like a landslide of people that just adopt it. Kind of like when social media took off and myspace took off and YouTube and Instagram and Facebook and you know, all these other platforms ; TikTok. That kind of exponential growth in something that involves money, I don't think we've ever seen it at the scale at which it'll go.

The point of sales systems are already out and can be introduced into any of the current point sale systems and businesses. So it wouldn't be like changing from cash to putting in, you know, credit card readers and all these other complex things. When switching from analog to digital, all of the things that are digital that are in place can just be swapped for the bitcoin systems that are being built now. So it wouldn't be as drastic as changing from cash to putting in credit card readers and all these other complex digital systems like we did in the past. We would just integrate the PoS that we have for lighting and keep scaling it out.

So, the systems that we live inside of - employment, education, domestic life, etc - look similar but are operating on the basis of a different medium of exchange?

This is what I'm trying to get more clarity about. I don't expect any concrete answers. That's asking for the impossible. I'm just probing to see what thoughts are out there already.

There are some fundamental truths that apply to projects like bitcoin. Given the current landscape, those fundamental truths don't seem to be getting looked at. Maybe they are though. Maybe I've missed it and just need to ask.

Thank you for the thoughtful response.

I agree with that. The form being different than it is certainly changes what kind of options are available.

I'm hung up on the following thoughts:

Manipulated prices aren't a result of market participants. They're a result of arbitrary decision making. That decision making doesn't go away just because someone says it does. It simply changes hands.

Currently, the world looks and works a certain way to people: work, school, etc. Does the basic structure that people operate inside of look different? If so, does the outlook compensate for that?

Many people will be left behind on this project, the same as they have been every other time. It doesn't matter if Bitcoin is different than everything that has come before. The thought that "all" will benefit is shortsighted. (I mean no insult by that.) So, I'm wondering if anyone can articulate a vision of what the world looks like beyond "21 million cap, store of value, etc, etc."

I hope that was helpful. I don't know a clearer way to ask the question.

Always has as far as history is concerned. "Markets" and "economics" aren't words that describe things people commonly imagine - stocks, options, whatever else.

What kind of structure does the #bitcoin community see in the world, if things play out in any of the many proposed ways? Honest question. Help me understand what the world looks like after that kind of transition.

PSA I may have more questions for anyone who answers.

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Wait... I get it now. This is a rush to the next thing in hopes of being at the helm, because there will be a helm - don't get confused. This whole entire thing is cyclical. Form does not matter to the forces that drive these things.

There will still be those left-out-to-dry individuals, the ones who end up chewed up by whatever system prevails. That's where the fuel to keep things running comes from. Believing it to be otherwise is foolish. You have to account for human nature.

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