i use it as currency all the time

If you actually use Bitcoin as a currency without middlemen that's awesome. But the vast majority do not, even the majority of so called 'Bitcoiners' do not.

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You seem to have missed my point. Bitcoin in 99% if people's view is how many dollars it's worth, I'm not saying there is no one trying to sell stuff in Bitcoin, I'm saying it's very few and far between and the culture around Bitcoin is trying to tell people to just hold it forever and that the real value of Bitcoin is how much you can sell it for later. Also I mentioned how most of the time when you use it you have to go through middlemen, the peer to peer digital cash idea seems to be an after though or a thought that has been tossed out by most. I do appreciate that some people are trying to keep it going, my issue is with the culture mostly and with the insisting that we need banks and big money management in the middle of everything.

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I built this website less than two weeks ago. There are plenty of us out there who accept bitcoin as currency

From my keys to your keys with no one inbetween is the goal, and it feels so good. Inject that shit straight into my veins.

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Yes exactly, not asking this bank or that money management team or that service provider if I can send a transaction. Literally, me to you and then done. People don't seem to understand that's my point.

I think this is one of the biggest challenges we face today

People will always use custodians, until they realize they are just as susceptible as an individual to being hacked/conned. Sometimes/most times more susceptible than an individual. As long as I am able to hold my own keys, run my own node(with whatever compatible implementation I want), and people continue to support mixing services, I'm all gravy baby. Fuck em all and whatever they use for transacting their corn. Thinking we can stop people from acting or interacting with bitcoin however they want is a waste of our energy. Suits are gonna suit And scammers gonna scam I'll just be over here sweeping my excess fiat after bills into sats. Holding my own keys. Honestly what worries me most is if everyone around here starts to agree about everything. Stay adversarial peeps.

Is this guy a bot? His tone is very not Nostr! I smell bullshit!

I'm not a bot, ive been on here for awhile. Several nyms. I just don't like the current state of Bitcoin culture that's all. You don't have to agree with me.

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“It's not even trying to be used as a currency anymore.” Swing by the #bullishmarket every 21st and experience bitcoin being used exactly what it was invented for. “It's all about how many dollars can I trade it for.” Most vendors price in sats, and we trade Proof of Work. It’s a free market, if someone values my product and the PoW I evidence as backing my product, good, healthy sats are exchanged. Not a dollar in sight. “And the very few places you can use Bitcoin it's via middlemen and service providers or government wallets in some cases which defeats the whole purpose of decentralized peer to peer digital cash.” No middle men here sir! Just a load of cool folk investing solid time and energy in the things we love and exchanging them for the hardest money planet Earth has ever seen. But you’ve got to experience it, live it as your own experience and then you will see Bitcoin is money and it is being used as such and your sadness shall quickly be replaced by sheer delight and joy that we are winning, winning, winning, so bloody winning! See you at the Bullish Market on the 21st! Come with a healthily stacked NKYC wallet loaded up with sats, you are going to need them!

like yours, yes!

Most likely. You can usually snuff em out

Don't be sad bro, Bitcoin is cool. People will catch on eventually

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