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18 Oct, 10 tweets, 2 min read

I really do believe there is a lot that the Bitcoin advocates and innovators get right.

What they seem to miss over and over again, to me, is the problem of stickage and the natural way trade works, despite the crap that goes on behind the scenes, for most there is an ease and

a familiarity and a simplicity that Bitcoin *seems* to belittle when it’s addressed. In a real way, this makes Bitcoin seem more aligned with a cold, elite banking system than a real solution - especially for those most vulnerable.

At one time people talked about Bitcoin in

a way that almost anyone could understand. Now? Seems like that’s faded a lot and it’s falling into the same patterns and unfortunate habits that all “expertise” has. It’s gotten cold and that excitement that got those passionate about liberty excited seems to have been replaced

with FOMO and “you’re either in with the cool kids, or you’re not - you’re either a Bitcoin millionaire or you’re not - suck it up sucker!”

Hope this changes. Especially now.

Fiat is lame! Bitcoin is the future. If you don’t join us gloom! Doom! Suck my smoke, sucker! Sorry, sucks to be you!

Yeah. This sounds like a GREAT way to respond to the culture of Big Banks and the Fed. 😒

Not to mention the conflation of crypto/digital with Bitcoin will make it a lot easier for people to believe that the easiest digital currency (think terrifying digital Yen) wouldn’t be a problem.

So imagine the future we could face….a class of Bitcoin literati turned

glitterati, where free trade (such as it would be in a black market by totalitarian necessity) functioning alongside a mass of people with boots on their necks at the mercy of a falsified scarcity economy. Doesnt that sound “epic?” 😏

In Romania there was a black market that ran on dollars. It would be illegal to have a dollar, and you could end up with a sentence of 20 years for one $20 bill. But….

there were dollar stores where you could buy almost anything that most people would have to wait for months, if not sometimes a lifetime. I think about this a lot lately. Not fun.

I donno about you, but that kind of FOMO…doesn’t strike me as in keeping with Satoshi’s vision.

Definitely not “epic.” Unless Epic sadness and a world that has very little to do with liberty. 😕

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