Actually it isn’t interesting. He’s just trying to force what he cares about onto people who don’t care about it and the complaining that no option solves literally every single problem of money, payments, and finance all at the same time… which is just an absurd notion, imo. Of course don’t recommend something hard to use or costly, but the fact that he jumps on Monero at the end and pretends it doesn’t have a vastly worse scaling problem, has even more limited options for layering, and the person is gonna have to KUC on some exchange to buy it anyway, shows this isn’t actually a conversation about trade offs, it’s just shilling. 🤷🏻‍♂️ “Lightning doesn’t scale, use Monero.” Is like saying, “IP addresses won’t scale, that’s why I tell people to write physical letters.” 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

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b 4 months ago
I don’t think he is wrong when it comes to the normie mindset. People have been conditioned to believe that privacy is scary and evil. How do we get people to care is probably the most vexing aspect of being a Bitcoiner. To us the problem is plain as day but to the normie it’s “that’s crazy, did you catch the game this weekend!” As for scaling I have no idea how this pans out. I’ve read that lighting doesn’t scale to the entire world, so I’m curious to what other solutions will be out there to help handle growing adoption. Lastly will normies use Bitcoin or will it be abstracted away until they are using something like a bitcoin backed dollar or something like that?