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weev 1 week ago
How does Bitcoin losing value weaken Bitcoin’s ability to produce a valid block every ten minutes? How does people using other blockchains for literally every real world application of blockchains weaken Bitcoin’s ability to do so? It doesn’t! As long as Bitcoin produces a valid block every ten minutes it wins! Therefore, by your logic here, Bitcoin can fail in every conceivable manner, it can lose every single product application, but still “succeed” because you can jerk off to the current hashrate and block height. Well, most people want their money to do something other than be a masturbatory math problem. In terms of Saylor specifically, he openly says Bitcoin is *done*. That it doesn’t need a security budget. That it doesn’t need any additional features. That LN works perfectly and needs no further work. And he specifically has sabotaged research grant orgs like OpenSats under this logic, going to their patrons and aggressively demanding that they withdraw their pledges of *free financial support* towards further Bitcoin development. Note that I have been in Bitcoin since sub-$5 and most OG Bitcoiners aggressively dispute Saylor’s ideas here: Saylor is poisonous to Bitcoin’s success, unless you define Bitcoin success as merely more blocks being solved. Which, I agree, Bitcoin will continue having valid blocks, and the fee market will continue to be a fucking ghost town because people will continue to not use Bitcoin and the blocks will be fucking empty.

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But it's not a ghost town, sorry. You're just wrong about that. I think that just because you don't see all the different uses yourself you imagine that they don't exist at all. Even in the country of Peru alone I bet there is more bitcoin traffic than your mind would accept as a global number. Meanwhile, taking the time to go search for this, even in the age of AI, wouldn't fit your narrative very well. How much would it hurt you to ask ChatGPT to compare bitcoin's global traffic, including all 2nd layers, to say, visa's traffic in terms of total money and transactions? I'm guessing it would only hurt your pride. Adoption is a little ugly right now as it always is during the low part of the 4-year cycle, but not beneath the normal low point... Meanwhile new apps, communities, circular economies, and even network layers are being created at a more than encouraging pace. & I don't care what Saylor thinks, I'm no MSTR fanboi. If he said it's done I'll be surprised, but he certainly hasn't sold many of his 840,000 BTC so even his own words are insignificant to his actions.