The TAM for a cash-final, high-responsibility & trustless money system is really tiny and I'm sorry to say that the world isn't moving towards a cypherpunk utopia. Self-Sovereignity is exhausting and it takes a special kind of person to fully embrace it. Thinking that everyone will use Bitcoin and self-custody is like expecting everyone to be a prepper and build a bunker. Trust & convenience are features of civilization, not a bug. My pragmatic opinion is that Bitcoin is an insurance policy against the system's total failure, not a credible alternative.
Sometimes I feel like a fraud who advertises a revolution that never happened.
Bitcoin didn’t accomplish anything significant, at least not compared to the expectations everyone had more than a decade ago.
The price went up, the institutions coopted it, but we still pay with our cards.
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