Apathy is the biggest threat to Bitcoin. If no one cares about any of the cypherpunk and sound money ethos from which it was born, Bitcoin will be co-opted; it's rules will be changed and it's immutability will be called into question.
Maybe this takes 4 generations, maybe 8 or 16, but it will be an ever present threat to Bitcoin that we, the people, will need to remain vigilant to protect.
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Indeed, cypherpunks are the revolutionary vanguard of the Bitcoin movement. Without them, they whole thing is a giant LARP for fiat NGU and becoming a high-powered banker tool and CBDC.
Education is very important. The cypherpunk mentality is easy to agree with, but difficult to implement because people just don't know how to actually do electronics and coding. But I'm not criticizing - I think we're doing great - I'm just saying, we have to keep education in mind. I would very much like to see practical electronics workshops for homesteaders and classes in elementary level schooling.
