Why the Bitcoin price in dollars or euros is often irrelevant:
In a circular economy, what matters is what you can buy directly with Bitcoin, not how many fiat units are listed on the chart.
After debanking, the crucial question is often: Can I continue to pay, save, or receive donations?
For activists and journalists, Bitcoin can be a means of censorship resistance and receiving support payments.
In countries experiencing currency devaluation, Bitcoin serves as an alternative to local currency devaluation, not as a US dollar price.
For self-custody, it's more important whether you securely control your coins, not whether BTC is trading higher or lower in euros today.
In small businesses, what matters is whether Bitcoin generates demand, reduces costs, or reaches new customers.
For cross-border payments, the fiat price is secondary when speed, independence, and availability are paramount.
For fundraising campaigns, the key is whether people can pay directly without intermediaries.
In everyday use of Lightning, usability is what counts, not the daily fluctuations in the price.
Those who understand Bitcoin as an alternative monetary system don't measure success in euro or dollar highs, but in usability, sovereignty, and acceptance.
“It is not necessary to use violence to suppress any uprising. Methods like Hitler’s are outdated. It is enough to create a form of collective conditioning so powerful that the mere thought of rebellion no longer crosses people’s minds.
We will broadcast massive amounts of entertainment programs on television that appeal solely to emotions or instincts. People’s minds will be occupied with useless or frivolous things.
Thinking can be blocked by constant chatter and music. We will place sexuality at the forefront of human interests. There is no better social sedative. In general, we will shape things so that the seriousness of existence disappears.
Everything of value will be ridiculed, while frivolity and superficiality will be promoted, so that public euphoria becomes the measure of human happiness and the model for freedom. This conditioning will lead to such profound integration that the only fear we need to maintain will be exclusion from the system. Any doctrine that calls this into question must be labeled as subversive and terrorist, and those who support it will then be treated as terrorists.
The ideal would be to train people from birth by restricting their innate biological abilities. After that, the conditioning would continue by drastically reducing their education and limiting it to the acquisition of vocational skills. People would be conditioned from an early age to think and want only what the system dictates.
They would be distracted with a constant stream of entertainment and consumerism so that they would never even think of questioning the system. “The perfect dictatorship would be one in which the slaves are slaves without knowing it, and yet still feel free.” Günter Anders, 1956
