Not complaining. Noticing and making suggestions.

It will in big parts for a long time. On- and off ramps, regulations for business payments, chain surveillance…there is a non KYC P2P market now and it will grow. I don’t believe that it will be fully captured. At least I’m trying to help further the grassroots adoption.

I think it’s more interesting to work with and listen to people who are using bitcoin for payments to escape financial oppression. Instead of the usual. But hey it’s great that you and I can enjoy different aspects of Bitcoin. I don’t tell you what you should do, so don’t tell me.

True. The state could use bitcoin as money too instead of fiat and it would not mean that the state falls. The state couldn’t tax people through inflation anymore, but can still coerce them to pay income tax etc.

Depends on where you go, but mostly yes, as people get the same European education, and the same nation state systems like fiat currency are used to extract value (much more as in Western countries) and people often fear disobeying their autocratic leaders (understandably).

I don’t know. Maybe.

Because for the most people outside this space the thought of destroying the state is making them anxious. It seems to them that the purpose of Bitcoin is only to destroy or speculate to get rich to the detriment of the „regular„ people. Most people are not anti-state.

Stumbled upon this podcast title today. If I wanted to attract a lot of people to learn about Bitcoin I wouldn’t choose that narrative. It turns most people off.

No a US citizen, but I am also not using biometrics.

No. I meant VPN protects me from surveillance like that mentioned in the article on Reuters. But Reuters doesn’t let me protect myself.