Third conclusion:
people do not trust existing structures, yet they are largely unaware of tools for private communication such as SimpleX Chat, Session, Keet, Bitchat, and others.
Also I a country with a extrem censorship, Nostr remains very largery unknown.
They also underestimate the importance of controlling their own wealth, as in most cases their investments are managed or held by third parties.
Even in the rare case that someone decides to acquire Bitcoin, they struggle to understand the advantage of no-KYC over KYC.
Well-known no-KYC platforms are essentially non-functional — in a country where, until very recently, transactions were conducted almost exclusively hand-to-hand.
We have an enormous amount of work ahead of us!
Greetings from Türkiye 🇹🇷
Here are a few conclusions for my bitcoiner friends from my stay in Istanbul, Turkey.
First conclusion:
adoption has not increased at all since the last time I was here two-three years ago.
If anything, it may have even declined.
As a community, we need to admit that we’ve lost valuable time — whether through internal dramas, focusing on politicians, price goes up thinking, carrying about stablecoins, or building overly complex stuff that no one wants or knows how to use.
No one with real influence and skills has made a serious effort to simply show people how to use digital money in their everyday lives — and why it matters.
Even in a country like Turkey, with over 90 million people, or in a city of 20 million, where people watch their local currency deteriorate and lose value every single day.
We have all failed together — each in our own way and according to our respective roles.
If we carry as a community that Bitcoin will make people more free and the world a better place for the next to come, we probably must focus again to the basics.
