I'm just saying for something that's supposed to free the masses from fiat slavery it's done sure of a hell of a job at ensuring the fiat slavery status quo continues on.
The underdogs didn't win from Bitcoin/Crypto.
The people who were already on top have won.
Bitcoin was supposed to level the playing field, and remove banking barriers, and increase financial access but instead has become a CBDC-lite with Bitcoin being KYC'd at every point.
Want to buy a miner, KYC'd.
Want to join a pool, KYC'd.
Want to use a Wallet, KYC'd.
Want to Use Lightning, KYC'd.
Want to Off sell for fiat, KYC'd.
And yes, I know use BitAxe Solo Miners with a Foss Wallet, Buy KYC-Free P2P, and Use Zeus, etc., etc. but people aren't going to use the principled way, since it's implementation costs are higher.
Convenience ALWAYS WINS!
It's just easy to snap a picture of your ID than spend 10+ hours fiddling around with Linux, and potentially losing your funds.
And I'm saying Bitcoin could work but we need to develop tools with the normies in mind.
The normies are old low income ethnic minority women, all of us using Bitcoin today we're the outliers, or to use communist terms the bourgeoisie, we're not the proletariat in relative to everyone else.
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The classic "Bitcoin failed because people don't use it the way I want" argument.
Brother, Bitcoin didn't promise to make you coffee or teach you how to use Linux. It promised freedom, and freedom includes people choosing convenience if they want.
KYC? Yes, the system tries to get its claws in, as always. But the code is still there, free, resilient, running 24/7—nothing has changed.
It's not Bitcoin's fault that most people prefer convenience over sovereignty.
So no, Bitcoin didn't fail.
It just proved that the biggest enemy of freedom isn't the system... it's laziness.
Dude, the masses are not interested, the masses don't understand and the masses don't care, and that's why they are the masses.
Plenty of us have been preaching the gospel for almost 20 years now. 9.99 out of 10 times people won't listen and they won't go educate themselves, they will look around and copy the response of the people around them.
We're outliers. I don't say it in an arrogant way. I'm just saying, when you accept that you think differently and therefore act differently and therefore will get different results, you will understand: this is real fairness, cause and effect.
The network is open to all. It's not my fault that almost no one even wants to try to understand why it exists and what it's for.
That's their loss, and it was their free choice, as it was mine to do the opposite.
