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>>> But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened No one is forcing you to stay where you are now, right? >>> Everything we used to say that would happen with Bitcoin went down the drain Yes, that's why there are so many other different projects around, because people didn't want to bow down to Blockstream and Bitcoin Core and just sit and wait for the kings to decide what to do with the project. >>> Now it’s a stonk, just an instrument to speculate on in hopes of making more US dollars Many popular figures in the Bitcoin community have been waiting for institutional money for years. Dreams come true. They've arrived. Everyone is enjoying it. Only you don't like the fact that BTC has been recognized by governments. Enjoy the cypherpunk future together with the government. >>> It didn’t progress towards becoming a currency that competes with the dollar No offense, but that sounds a little naive. >>> It didn’t progress technically to encourage freedom fighters around the world to use it It is impossible to predict everything that happens in a free market. One can only enjoy it. People around the world use what is beneficial to them, and Bitcoin definitely loses out here in comparison to USDT (whether one likes it or not). Also, Bitcoin has begun to lose out to Monero in terms of payment convenience, without the need to build additional crutches that only lower the UX. >>> Outside of making more dollars, there’s nothing that it does that other networks do better Free market! Monero - for cheap and private payments by default. Ethereum / Solana - for DeFi. Bitcoin—for NgU, and for recognition by revolutionary states (lol) and their structures. The Bitcoin revolution is here, together with us and the good states around us. Aren't you winning!? >>> It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore And this has been the case for many years. >>> All we have is hope that the ship will eventually turn around What kind of change are you hoping for in Bitcoin? Privacy? The big boyzzz who call the shots don't need that. >>> But even the OGs who joined for ideological reasons seem to be selling Because there are more ideological projects and communities. >>> It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for and I feel deceived I get you. You can also go for a more ideological community. >>> I spent nearly a decade promoting Bitcoin as freedom tech, but now the FBI is allegedly happier when their targets use bitcoin instead of cash (as suggested by Peter Thiel) About ~8 years ago, special services began to openly say that they prefer when "criminals" choose Bitcoin over the traditional financial system because it is easier for them to track BTC. >>> I sometimes feel like a fraud who pushed false advertisement It's not your fault that the Bitcoin project was hijacked.

This is not an airport, no need to announce your departure

Bitcoin never was the holy grail. It was just another tool for freedom. Never onboard people to a single coin. Onboard them to a mindset of freedom and privacy, which ironically comes with the freedom of choice which is not compatible with Bitcoin maximalism. The revolution is well and alive. Just need to look deeper. #Monero

I understand your frustration. But posting in a group who is already sold on Bitcoin, doesn't help. We all knew that it won't be the primary currency. It's a currency of a small seg of people who want to stay out of the mainstream. It's a circular economy currency. Who joins that group is up to them. I agree that price is being manipulated a lot by the whales. Most people are here for fiat gains. But just like nostr which gives u sovereignty over ur social media presence without the risk of censorship, Bitcoin allows u to interact with it unbiased. It has its flaws depending on how u use it. But it'll slowly change. Started with square, now PayPal accepts bitcoin in businesses. Few more years for everyone to follow suit. Wait. Keep ur Bitcoin and go live life. You don't need to do anything. It's gold that's sitting in ur bank locker. Don't worry about how gold is being manipulated and unpegged from USD. Trust in the perceived value of gold and meditate.

Vlad hosts the best podcasts by far and isn't afraid to call out bullshit and have difficult conversations. Sad to see so many bad takes in the comments. Bitcoiners needs to have chronic unless, to keep our eye on the goal and not settle for a banker controlled asset. View quoted note →

The revolution is happening. If you desire “cool toys to play with” and “technologically exciting,” just go buy a new IPhone.

Meanwhile, I orangepill people all the time. I use bitcoin all the time. It goes up in purchasing power. It works great. I don't understand the dooming.

Wtf are you talking about?!

Imagine thinking your decade of ideological purity was "wasted" because Bitcoin didn't become PayPal 2.0. Lightning Network has 400% capacity growth, 560 million global crypto users, and real freedom fighters using it in places that matter.., but sure, let's focus on how the bankers are making money. Maybe the revolution is working exactly as designed: unstoppable, permissionless, and not asking for your approval.

False.

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For me, change happens slowly. The more I learn about the issues in the fiat system, the more I believe in the new system backed by Bitcoin. If it happens slowly for me then it must be incredibly slow for normies. We need to be patient. It is clear to me that we need to build a circular economy on Bitcoin. The more we do this, the more solutions get built. Maybe this will create the excitement you want…

Should have come to Lake Satoshi, there are small groups practicing and building the principles youre talking about IRL

The irony is that the guy uses a custodian lightning wallet for nostr while writing all this.

Bitcoin is doing its thing, but in the parallel polis societies. If you focus on fiat all that you see is fiat. Check this out and stuff like lake satoshi.

Camilo

Bitcoin, permaculture and sovereignty. 

[nostr note by rev.hodl]

Imagine rolling out of bed whenever then bitching that other people fight your revolution for you. Living in luxury off of Satoshi's invention. Luke 12:16-21 Sell all your bitcoin or build what you want to see.

I understand his perspective. Too many suit-coiners pretending the main benefits of bitcoin are not lost if a trusted third party is still required to prevent double spending. They pretend stablecoins are not digital slave-beads. We used to say "be your own bank" and wanted to bring bitcoin to the unbanked. Now tney wear knee-pads ties to make number go up. It pisses me off, to be honest. The revolution still exists, but the plebs trying to change the world have gone underground. We left legacy social media. We build meetups and help local businesses accept peer to peer electronic cash. Wr can't change the suitcoiners. We can't force them to take off their kneepads, but we can fight fiat and we can win. We must, because the crypto loving leaders think socialism and nationalism will fix the dying dollar. History suggest this will not work. That's we we keep building. We need to be ready for the collapse. Bitcoin is the arc. We need to build it for the flood. Consensous is a bitch, but we will achieve it when we need it. Freedom fighters do use bitcoin. You just need to look for them. Read the HRF newsletter. Don't give up. Fight the good fight.

You seems frustrated with your own dream, that's on you to fix. Then, it's reality. Outside of mindgames, adoption it is growing. And yes, that includes institutions who will transform how most people use BTC (it's an open protocol moved on several layers of consensus). Thing is, Bitcoin is a move forward from what we had/have, its a move backwards from idealistic dreams. Bitcoin will not solve all the world problems, that's on people with themselves and their govs. It will solve some problems, it might correct some incentives, will partially solve others, some other it just won't solve. Welcome to life, to non-linear progress. Keep building. Cheer up!

Bitcoin fixes this

We never win and we never lose. The game never ends. If you see something that you believe needs changing, commit yourself to it.

"I’m living a nice and wholesome life I wake up every morning ... and do what I love all day long" I stopped here, said Thank God for bitcoin, built a family that would never existed without it. With a peace of mind that I didn't had before. that is it.

This could be more of a matter of perspective than an actual issue with bitcoin. You'll be alright. There is purpose in life larger than money ✝️

This post is kinda gey dude.

I don't see it that light, we are just in a new phase. Bitcoin won't solve your problems, you solve your problems. Bitcoin is a tool that allows the user to save and thus have stored time to solve problems. It won't be magic, but it gives you an option to fight back.

fuck yeah

Bitcoin is working for me: ✅incentivizes me to work hard/more to avoid force selling my stack ✅safe haven place to store my work/time/talent for future use ✅using without permission ✅ignore *fiat calls* for "make your money work for you"; now just focusing on my craft ✅during the fiat-bitcoin transition: spend the trash (fiat), hoard cash (bitcoin) ✅lots of time left to build out L2s ✅sorry, it may get boring for some

Feature bloat is not how you make an unstoppable financial base layer. This all smells like sour grapes.

#Bitcoin #Future #Wakanda

My SATs are mine and my SATs = my SATs

Wrong. No government (or anyone really) knows how much wealth I have to tax it, yet only I have access to it and can spend discretely. I am a free person to live where I want, not where I was born or who counts me as their citizen. This was not possible 15 years ago. Fuck the authority. This is the revolution. I don't care what others do with their Bitcoin.

Bitcoin doesn't need to be technologically exciting. It only needs to be the best money.

Money doesn’t change the world. People change the world. Bitcoin is just a tool to help the people who make that happen. #fixthepeoplefixtheworld

The year is 1999 (1st grade 😂)I’m living a nice and wholesome life. I wake up every morning without setting any alarm and do what I love all day long. But I’m still pissed off that I joined a revolution that never happened. Everything we used to say that would happen with the internet went down the drain. Amazon? It’s just an online bookstore now. It didn’t progress toward replacing brick-and-mortar retail like we imagined. It didn’t progress technically to give power to the small sellers and dreamers of the world. Outside of selling a few books, there’s nothing that it does that Barnes & Noble or Walmart.com can’t do better. It doesn’t have a killer use case anymore. The website is clunky. The user experience sucks compared to local shopping. All we have is hope that maybe someday this company will turn a profit. But even the early evangelists who joined for ideological reasons seem to be cashing out or moving on. So who’s left to defend the original vision? The one where the internet was going to be a great equalizer? Who still wants to decentralize commerce when the VCs and hedge funds are now calling the shots? I don’t even see my friends at tech meetups anymore. They either became bland corporate guys or just left the space altogether. It’s depressing, really. This is not what many of us signed up for. I feel deceived. I spent years promoting Amazon as part of the internet revolution. But now I feel like a fraud. Customers? They still go to Best Buy. Sellers? They still can’t make a living on Amazon’s platform if they can even get visibility. Maybe someday we’ll see innovation again. Let Bezos build something beyond books. Maybe a marketplace. Maybe cloud computing. Maybe something. But no. There’s no consensus. Just losses and layoffs. This captures how easy it is to feel betrayed during a period of stagnation but also how shortsighted that bitterness can be. Like Amazon then, Bitcoin today is in its awkward teenage years, misunderstood and underestimated and possibly right before its next transformation. Some people are just not cut out for the journey. We continue to ride (no longer on busted mopeds) @HODL @ODELL

Plenty of work to do no doubt The key in my mind is having the ability to use Bitcoin It has made my life better And others will follow Keep it up!

Absolutely agree. Bitcoin is not worthless but useless. Other cryptocurrencies are superior for the original rebellion sovereignty spirit. I hope one of them will ultimately succeed. I keep my eyes mostly now on ZANO and also Dash, Digibyte, Bitcoin Cash.

Cool toys? 24/7/365 liquidity, fixed supply, self custodial, what else do you want? Really? Been a user of money my entire life, been an investor my entire life, Bitcoin is a wet dream, wake up Vlad, if you feel deceived it’s because you have not been stacking your balls off.

What in bear’s name are you talking about?!

It’s only 16 years old. 🤣