The internet never had a native currency, so it had to use a surrogate: attention.
Due to the lack of a digital native money, we had to use credit (IOUs) to send money electronically. Fraud & chargebacks made micropayments impossible.
Two models evolved:
1) "You are the product"
...which uses attention & user data as a currency
2) "Subscription hell"
...which uses credit IOUs, which requires full control & KYC, and doesn't allow for micropayments (it's always ~$5 or more, nothing else would be profitable)
Apologies for crowd-sourcing all this, but I have to get this done in the next ~15 minutes and I don't trust myself looking it all up as I'm way too sleep-deprived 😅
Humbled by the generosity of the #Bitcoin community. Thank you for all the #V4V, not only in terms of sats, but also in terms of remixes and translations.
Time, talent, and treasure. 🙏🧡
My most recent piece was already translated multiple times, links below:
Dear Crypto & Fiat Bros,
you're probably not going to believe this, but I was you once.
I thought that #Bitcoin was stupid.
I thought that "crypto" was the future.
I was wrong.
Here is what changed my mind:
I didn't understand what Bitcoin was or why it was important, because I didn't understand what money was or why it was important.
That's also why I was easily fooled by shitcoins.
I got rekt, and I learned.
I learned that money printing is unproductive and immoral. I learned that #Bitcoin was different. Independent from the centralized exchanges that are doomed to fail.