goatmeal on Nostr: almost all monero people control their private key, do self-custody, and use the damn ...
almost all monero people control their private key, do self-custody, and use the damn thing. you can even say the same thing about most ethereum people. and they are insistent on upholding it as the standard of behavior.
almost no bitcoin people control their private key, do self-custody, or use the damn thing. they mostly leave it in full custody. you are lucky if the person occasionally squirrels some UTXOs under their mattress and does absolutely nothing with them. bitcoin nostr community is representative of only a fringe corner of the "user" base.
out of all the people I ever met in real life who had only interacted with bitcoin, more than half of them lost their private key. they are stupid and don't get it and don't want to understand. but if I count up my friends and acquaintances who resisted the disease known as bitcoin maximalism, all of them were more diligent about protecting their private keys. they could also do a much better job at articulating how the technology works and what it can do, unlike the maxis, who invariably just dreamt of selling their bitcoin IOUs.
almost no bitcoin people control their private key, do self-custody, or use the damn thing. they mostly leave it in full custody. you are lucky if the person occasionally squirrels some UTXOs under their mattress and does absolutely nothing with them. bitcoin nostr community is representative of only a fringe corner of the "user" base.
out of all the people I ever met in real life who had only interacted with bitcoin, more than half of them lost their private key. they are stupid and don't get it and don't want to understand. but if I count up my friends and acquaintances who resisted the disease known as bitcoin maximalism, all of them were more diligent about protecting their private keys. they could also do a much better job at articulating how the technology works and what it can do, unlike the maxis, who invariably just dreamt of selling their bitcoin IOUs.