Protonmail isn't "cryptoemail" just because it uses E2EE. It's just email.
Similarly, Signal isn't a "cryptomessaging" app. It's just messaging.
It's not "cryptobanking" just because your banking app uses TLS to communicate. It's just banking.
And it's not #cryptocurrency just because it uses private keys, bulletproofs, and Pedersen commitments. It's just currency.
"Crypto" is a misleading and alienating term to non-power users. It sounds special, complicated, foreign - even extreme(ly niche).
The fact that cryptography is involved is the least interesting aspect of it to your average user.
So let's stop making it sound so mysterious. It's just currency.
It's (e.g. #Monero with #CakeWallet) much faster and easier to set up and use than a typical bank account.
You can earn it and spend it much like any other currency. The main difference being that you don't need permission to open an account, nor to send or receive funds, as an individual or business.
It allows you to do business with anyone, anywhere, with almost no fees.
And it's as private as handing someone cash face-to-face.
But it's still currency, just better.
Welcome aboard! 😎
Two paths for adoption (of #privacy and #permissionless tech):
- Try to convince normies, whose eyes tend to glaze over the minute you mention words like fiat, inflation, privacy, surveillance, etc.
- Focus on those who are actually interested in the value freedom tech offers, and have consciously experienced the pain of not using it. Collaborate. Build and ship stuff that helps amplify their and your potential.
Normies gonna norm. That's OK. They have different priorities. Life is agonisingly short. They accept a different set of tradeoffs.
Preach to the converted. Make stuff for the converted. Sell stuff to the converted - and expand outward from there.
#grownostr #Monero
Use #Monero to:
- buy access to the best AI models with no account, and no personal information at nano-gpt.com
- browse the web privately using Mullvad VPN
- buy and sell stuff at XMRBazaar.com
- convert to anonymous paper money vouchers (gift cards) accepted by your favourite shops using #CakeWallet
- swap for other assets anonymously using trocador.app to explore other interesting #privacy tools like Zano, Beam, etc.
- onboard a family member, friend, or local merchant by showing them how to install and use Cake or #monerujo
- pay for a truly private, E2E encrypted email service with #protonmail (coming summer 2025!)
Live free. 😎
A fun thought experiment for house prices: How much would this house be worth if the law required you to pay cash (not borrow) for it?
Or for #Bitcoin: What would the price of Bitcoin be if it were delisted from *all* centralised exchanges worldwide?
Happy Paper Bitcoin Summer to all the ETF #cypherpunks!
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Don't believe the shills who tell you #Bitcoin is the "apex asset". They want you to help their number go up.
Time is the apex asset.
Your physical health is the apex asset.
Your mental health is the apex asset.
Your family's health is the apex asset.
Your children are the apex asset.
A good education (as opposed to a "formal education") is the apex asset.
Invest in the people, the goods, and the services that directly contribute to these. They are your apex assets.
The only thing more scarce than Bitcoin is every single thing that actually matters in life.