vinney on Nostr: I agree! The only problem with this thesis is that when you present it to someone who ...
I agree!
The only problem with this thesis is that when you present it to someone who has even half an ear to hear it, they often say "but how will that solve [insert their favorite hyper-specific concern here; like I don't know, "farm animal abuse in Romania" or something]??"
I've had this experience countless times.
The downside of such a lofty promise is that if you can't draw a perfect line between it and a random problem they think up, then they conclude the premise must be false.
There are a lot of problems with that way of thinking, but it doesn't prevent people from doing it.
The first global free market that has ever existed. Prices falling forever through the competitive and cooperative nature of that as long as #bitcoin remains decentralized and secure. Governments and monopolies MUST lose the control over you b/c it doesn’t care if they want to debase their currencies against it.
The open, decentralized, and secure nature of the protocol is just the first layer.
Layers built on top like Nostr lightning, Cashu, Fedimint extend its functionality/privacy while preserving the critical trade offs in the base layer to keep it decentralized and secure.
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