Also, there's not one "we". Someone wanting to dollar cost average 3$ per month to escape extreme poverty has a very different opinion on what is a corporate shitcoin and what is useful to them.
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Sure there is not one "we".
But how many people do you know which want to dca $3 a month into BTC and think they will escape extreme poverty that way? On a ledger where a transction costs you often more than $3?
I think thats all just made up stories to justify crappy, corporate scaling solutions, so crappy that i rather use cash and a credit card instead.
Same for FEDI. If dont even have custody of our funds, we can dump that whole idea of freedom money immediately, embrace the CBDC and get some vaseline so the state can fuck us better.
Relax, the world is not black and white,.
Yes, I do know of this problem and it's real. @Anita speaks about it a lot for example, helping people in Africa get onboarded. On-chain fees are a real problem and we should not price out some people just because we think everything should be solved only in one way.
Bitcoin is about open mind, expanding options, competition of ideas, not about some predetermined unshakeable ideology.
Hal Finney understood and wrote about this in 2010, as did Nick Szabo. https://rextar4444.medium.com/hal-finneys-theory-of-bitcoin-backed-banks-6b6484880c14
We will use plenty of technologies and let people choose their price sensitivity and need for privacy, security and censorship resistance.