Brunswick on Nostr: Only the most technical will understand bitcoin. People only need to understand that ...

Only the most technical will understand bitcoin. People only need to understand that it is money. Understanding the difficulty adjustment is too high a bar - way, way too high. People want to be able to be ignorant and focus on the things they already know and enjoy. One should not need to be a day-trader to keep their wealth from being stolen by inflation. They shouldn't need to be a computer engineer to just use money. The average person will want bitcoin when they need it to buy things and to pay for things. Most people under 30 can't save 50 bucks from one month to another. They aren't going to understand why their money needs to preserve its value from year to year. If they aren't earning enough to keep up with their cost of living, they either blame themselves and get another job or they blame their employer and find a higher paying job; they never blame the money, and they definitely don't connect it to government spending. They just think "things are just getting more expensive" and "that's the way it's always been". The concept of inflation is way too abstract. The word alone is abstract. Most people aren't integrative systems thinkers. Bitcoiners are unusual that way - extremely unusual. We can only wait for the world to come around, and they will, but we bitcoiners will be grouped in with "anti-vaxers" and flat-earthers, because people that distrust the government already are. We are grouped in with conspiracy theorists, unfortunately, because that's the pigeon-hole we fit in for most people. People tolerate us, but *other* us. They will treat our ideas like leprosy, because they know if they take them on, they will be shunned the same way they shun us... And they are comfortably ignorant. Fuck 'em.