What's the sentiment? I really don't know

It’s the ‘I’m broke, Saylor has all the coins, BlackRock are running the Reset and AI is replacing me’ kind of sentiment

The sentiment is the following: - mempool is empty, miners won't be able to secure the network in the long run - lightning does not really work nor scale, so custodial solutions are emerging against the ethos of Bitcoin - quantum could hit at any time, disrupting everything, and nobody is ready - institutional capture is under way (Saylor, ETFs), turning Bitcoin into a fiat asset basically that poses a threat to nobody - knots/core drama, Luke is going to fork Bitcoin - Bitcoin is not private and somehow this was discovered recently, or became very much a problem only recently. Coinjoin won't help you because tainted coins are, well, tainted, hence no fungibility - stablecoins are basically CBDCs and for whatever reason people thought that the trump admin was going to usher in a new era for Bitcoin Anything else I might have forgotten?

Think you covered it all

Doom spread, I can go to sleep now

Oh well. Just enjoy the sun and have an Aperol. 🤷

If you think Bitcoin is bad, crypto winter is even worse.

If this is the average sentiment, then it’s pretty safe to say the average Bitcoiner doesn’t actually understand Bitcoin, nor “money”. The space is extremely stale. How long can we talk about “money” without an objective ground to energy? Bitcoin is not intelligible when measured versus fiat. I mean literally zero explanatory power. This sentiment is a product of fiat thought. Fiat “Bitcoiners” keep thinking Bitcoins protocol needs to change to their fiat models and interpretation, when it is us and our minds that must change.

It’s not the average sentiment, it’s the sentiment of people generally unhappy about everything. Bitcoin not going their way is just one more thing on the list.

I am already dead.

I think your fifth point is not actual sentiment but reality. There aren’t enough nodes. To defend #bitcoin against code changes that weaken it. Such as Core v30. Which made Bitcoin lose its panacea status as being immutable….