Sure. If I go to another country I use their currency or just my credit card that doesn't charge me for international purchases. I don't learn the name of the individual coins or whatever. It just works. Bitcoin is not so straightforward though. And there is no easy way to use it. I have to find loopholes and work arounds. The only thing I am using bitcoin for by paying directly is data for my phone and my Proton Mail account. There is no other easy way for me to use Bitcoin in my day to day life. Its like using Yen in the US - no one will recognize the money. My main point is that we should think about ways to make it more accessible. Maybe it is clarifying names, or maybe it is something else. But dismissing things just because people should be able to do this or that isn't how we make things easier. Clearly things could be improved. I think it is good to discuss these things.

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I agree about making things easier. So maybe Jack should implement Lightning into Square which make far more accessible to the everyday person when they go shopping where Square devices are being used. If some random pleb that most people don't know had made the same suggestion about changing names people would laugh it off and move on already, but this a corporate billionaire who has many ways of influencing the culture. When he wore a Satoshi shirt to the Super Bowl (one of the most popular and expensive live events in the world) it had great influence and the culture supported him. Myself being one of them. This time the majority of the culture seems to be saying, 'no'.
I love that you gave some suggestions. Maybe it is a good thing he sparked such outrage, I think it is important to discuss ideas and come up with better solutions. I think I'm just personally tired of all the negativity on my feed about OP_return and this name change. But maybe it is important to talk about. Just trying to look at it in a constructive way.
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