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2023-02-17 02:53:08

arkinox on Nostr: Thoughts on the future of #bitcoin: If you were excited about the internet in its ...

Thoughts on the future of #bitcoin:

If you were excited about the internet in its infancy (and around for it), you have obviously been vindicated but not exactly in the way you expected.

People back then were not excited about the internet because they didn't understand it. People today are not excited about the internet per se; they are excited about apps, products, and services that exist because of the internet. But they don't really think about the internet itself.

If you were excited about the internet, people thought you were crazy back then and now they would just think you are weird.

Well, it might be like that with bitcoin too.

In the future people will use bitcoin without ever thinking about the protocol. People won't talk about bitcoin, but they will use apps, lapps, and yet-to-be-invented things on layers 2-3-X that make their lives better.

We have no idea what they will be excited about. But it probably won't be bitcoin itself.

We are the crazy ones right now, and we'll be the weird ones in the future when we still care about the timechain protocol, and eventually we will be vindicated by the effects of the energy-money singularity.

So stay weird. Some folks will never understand but that doesn't make you any less correct. We get it. And we are excited about the possibilities and the future.

Pure Vida 🤙
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