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People will never stop being scammed. Bitcoin isn't a scam. Humans are the scammers and the scammed. If bitcoin has utility (it does) and if it has value (it does) every institution will either die or use/hold/try to control it eventually. Price is a function of human action. Humans do dumb things. Fall for dumb narratives and scam people.
I still think of myself as a newer bitcoiner but clearly that can't be solely measured in years. We have a long way to go as a species before we get to anything close to a collection of sovereign individuals using bitcoin as the standard. Its not a failure of bitcoin that this has yet to happen. Its a failure of humans.
Modernity has little patience and even less of an attention span. Those who don't fall into these two traps will be rewarded in due time. That's my two sats at least.
Are the people who use bitcoins network for remittances or cross-boarder business because there’s no better alternative scammed? Are the now many countries @anita has onboarded scammed?
if they sat on their sats, believing the Bitcoiner protect-against-debasement story, then yes, they were scammed. If, more likely, they swapped it pretty quickly for local fiat -> local goods and services, less so. (But then those people, in turn got scammed. So I guess I'm saying: yes, have fun staying scammed)
Oof. Has bitcoins ability to send and receive value with censorship resistance changed? The implication that if you sold something for sats in the last two years you’ve been scammed is just insane NGU misinformation. Are the people who use bitcoins network for remittances or cross-boarder business because there’s no better alternative scammed? Are the now many countries @anita has onboarded scammed? She’s built a growing social network that stands on the legs of bitcoin simply working in places where other options just don’t.
That’s all bitcoin has ever promised and that promise has remained unbroken. You’re right, if you were sold bitcoin NGU and the only reason you’re here is for a portfolio application. You got scammed. You’re the fool. These bullshit institutions are just noise and I know, they’re loud as fuck. But it’s just the fucking price man! Bitcoin doesn’t owe you anything or care about your fiat gains and it never will.