#Bitcoin FUD debunked:
"We don't know who satoshi is"
"We don't know who owns the supply"
"Doesn't BTC have 'no utility'?"
"BTC can't scale"
"Why are so many people 'pumping' BTC?"
"Blackrock bad"
(pulled from this twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/benwehrman/status/1676790550387671040 )
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"Who is Satoshi?"
Doesn't matter, the protocol works. Who is the inventor of the car? The airplane? The phone you're typing this on? It's irrelevant because they WORK, and you can verifiably prove that by looking at it with your own eyes, in the same way that Bitcoin is 100% open-source.
"Who owns the supply?"
Whoever wants any, because it's open to anyone and everyone to buy. If uneven distribution is what you're worried about, here are plenty of resources breaking down the data (TLDR: it's significantly better than all forms of fiat, like USD & ETH, let alone the fact that increased holdings does not grant the holder more power within the protocol):
👉 whybitcoinonly.com/#Distribution
"What does BTC even do"
It's an inflation-proof, censorship-resistant, leaderless form of money. This is THE MOST important use case that needs to be filled on the entire planet right now, as bureaucrats and central bankers run amok. Every altcoin advertising other "use cases" are wasting their (and your) time, because all of these utilities can be done more cheaply and more efficiently with a regular centralized database.
"How can it scale?"
Learn about the lightning network. Too big of a topic to summarize in one blurb, but TLDR is it's "the parcel to bitcoin's container ship".
But even if we're playing extreme devil's advocate, and you don't like the lightning network...superspeed scalability isn't even required for the store-of-value use case of layer-1 bitcoin.
Additional LN resources: whybitcoinonly.com/#Lightning
"Why are so many people pumping it"
Because the first (and only) perfectly scarce form of digital property is a very big fucking deal. It fixes a very real (and often life-or-death) problem for millions of people around the world: shitty money that steals from them by design.
BTC doesn't just give everyone on earth a liferaft to escape rampant inflation created by degenerate-gambling central bankers, it allows them to exchange value between each other ANYWHERE ON EARTH without needing permission from Jerome Powell, Vitalik Buterin, or any other central banker god-king
"Blackrock bad"
Bitcoin is an open protocol. EVERYONE can buy it. There is no clause in the code that says "this is only for poor people"...it's a truly open market, and yes, rich people will capitulate into it too.
THIS IS WHY bitcoiners are so rabidly trying to get people lower on the economic totem pole on board, to front-run the institutions that will inevitably fly in once they have no other choice.