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190 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 26 Nov \ parent \ on: The part of Bitcoin you *have* to trust bitcoin
Not govs will kill Bitcoin, but dumb and scared people. Blind compliance and statism is what will kill Bitcoin.
Remember the key word: COMPLIANCE
Many of today's people calling themselves bitcoiners, will drop BTC in a blink of an eye, when a gov will say that will not receive anymore money if they do not use some bullshit token or CBDC.
Today's people are so fucking cowards and totally brainwashed. Very few will stand their ground and say a firm NO, no matter what. Many will come with all kind of excuses but none will want to make any sacrifice.
We are writing a shit ton of articles, guides, documentation, podcasts, debates etc... all for nothing. People still go and use fiat and obey the gov orders.
So no... Bitcoin will not thrive, will not even get used mainstream until people will stop believing in gov authority.
Until then, Bitcoin will be just an underground economy, only for the brave.
One of my big “aha moments” was thinking about how few weirdos like yourself, scattered all around the world, are actually needed to keep bitcoin going.
It can survive much more than its enemies can because it’s almost impossible to hunt all of you down.
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I am already using bitcoin at daily basis, but underground, in economies that are only p2p, where people don't give a fuck about any gov.
But yes, I made a lot of sacrifices and I will make even more, just to keep this life.
And we just live a simple normal life.
And that will not be taken by anybody from me. I will be the last man on earth using bitcoin.
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It’s as unstoppable as anything involving mortal beings, as far as I can tell.
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Yes.
In his interview with Jordan Peterson, I remember Saylor saying something like "Bitcoin is first of all a human protocol, then it is a computer protocol".
In other words, assume the states co-opted what we call Bitcoin and captured all major mining pools. Maybe not physically but in principle e.g. You have to comply to xyz which undermines permissionlessness and leaves only a vague form of it.
At the moment, if the consensus is reached (maybe after some years of other weird stuff happening), most Bitcoiners will stop seeing what we call Bitcoin to be Bitcoin.
They will start Bitcoin by spinning off a fork and I'll make sure to go to that.
Maybe it will have properties of ZEC, maybe Monero properties, I'll not say "but these came from ZEC". Nope.
I'll pack it up.
If they stay for a while longer, then it means the movement is fighting oppression from within a while longer.
Maybe it will raid some sidechain and evolve further from there. Whatever.
But Bitcoin cannot die unless one hunts and kills all Bitcoiners and wipes all nodes of the Genesis block, wipe all altcoins (which I do not consider anti-Bitcoin in the strictest sense but side projects coz people have to eat. If i had Hoskinson's skills I too would spin up some fancy chains).
Bitcoin, the King, will stay on his hill.
And when the moment comes, I kid you not, Eth, Solana, they'll all defend it.
Not to mention Presidents around the world.
Who can really attack Bitcoin to 100% destroy it and get away with it? Nobody.
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This is a great observation! Bitcoin does attempt to even the playing field between a very well resourced state and a disparate group of individuals. All the things that most excite me in life are like this.
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