Me in 2011: this bitcoin thing is cool but I really want to build a nice computer, let me sell a few coins to buy parts.
Me in 2025: this lightning this is cool, I can use it to buy nice computer parts.
Some things never change, I guess.
Underrated fact: if there’s not enough demand for (truly) censorship-money, Bitcoin fails.
Not just people won’t use it and it’ll fade (which is true), but literally someone’s gotta pay the miners, and there’s no indication anything but a real demand for censorship-resistant money will do.
I still think about how one of the very first academic papers ever written about bitcoin predicted it would fail because there’s no incentives to run a node and thus no one would and then transactions wouldn’t relay.
The CLARITY Act passed with section 110 intact. Y’all know what to do….
It’s time to call your senators! saveourwallets.org has the numbers, get to it!
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