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 How is Bitcoin better? 
 I wrote it, safety and trust. 
 Maybe you are right, but i am analyst, I need some inputs, analyze and decide by my own, i do not work with narratives. 
 It was the first! And it is wildly recognised, most secure, most decentralized with no figure head.

#Bitcoin is the the money revolution. Anything else is useless.

Network effects are real. 
 Many days ago gold was also first. But i accept there is always psychological effect, like many people still think that gold is still the best. 

Yes widely recognized, but as many people asked to use it in daily basis, they are not able to, they are not able to go over channel management, they can not afford it. We can't be responsible for motivating people to use custody wallets like wos which are not decentralized, but old banking style which could be and already is becoming censored in many locations, it is not freedom but trap. My friend been traveling and been asking hundreds very poor people in poor counties, if they would like to use something else than their hyperinflated money, answer was always “yes but what and how“? Friend show them Bitcoin and Nano. Friend give them freedom to choose ratio between bitcoin and Nano to receive. Guess what? They choose some bitcoin to store not to use, they choose most of in nano, because they need to do penny transactions every day for living. I mean bitcoin lightning is not enough for every day adoption and L2 must become better to be adopted. 
 Same as gold extremists are, same bitcoin extremists are, opening their minds to see anything else is not possible, it is not their fault, they are not open for honest discussions to protect their own narrative to be finished or never happen.