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 Most underrated aspect of bitcoin?

In your opinion 
 Its selfhealing  
 21M is still underrated  
 Underrated and misunderstood 

People can’t truly wrap their head around it 

We’ve never had anything like it 
 Almost everyone on earth can use it. Yet most people are too dumb, blind, scared and\or comfortabley numb to educate themselves.  
 Bring unity 
 Simplicity 
 Couldn’t agree more 

People think it’s complex just because it’s new 

Copy and paste
Or scan a QR 
 It goes far beyond that when you consider design elements that make it work. It is simple, neat, yet likely the best combination possible to achieve its goals. 
 Bitcoin works because of proof of work

when we have a money like this, we have the ability to give and get the correct value for the work we do. that is incredibly freeing. 

it can be a very spiritually liberating experience. many are stuck with the monetary value or technical implications which is great but the true value of Bitcoin is the freedom.  
 It's going to completely revolutionize energy 
 Its divisibility.
Many people get intimidated by the price at first, because most investments, stocks, precious metals etc. you can’t buy small fractional shares over time.
I think the lack of divisibility was a main reason gold became more and more centralized and abstracted over time, and ultimately failed as a monetary base.
Being purely digital, #bitcoin breaks free of this constraint. 
 All the cool people you meet 
 The fact that it changes you 🫡 
 This is because;
#Bitcoin teaches us: 
 
🏦 law 
🔢 math 
⚡️ energy  
🪖 history 
💵 finance 
📈 economics 
🧠 philosophy 
♟️ game theory 
✊ human rights 
🌍 macroeconomics 
🖥️ computer science 
 The false confidence of control it gives others. No one is in complete control of their lives. 
 If the dominoes fall in a particular way, then Bitcoin will be the channel through which the osmosis of power occurs.
 
 Incentivizing cheap abundant energy. 
 It will make a more peaceful world. The world looks a lot different when governments have to increase taxes to go to war instead of just printing money. Fix the money. Fix society. Fix the planet. 
 the sats you have today will be the wealth of tomorrow  
 greater anonymity than credit cards 
 The fact that is PERMISSIONLESS. The fact that you can self custody and be your own bank. I don't know if it's the most underrated aspect (well maybe by those who are just in it for a god candle) but it is IMO the most IMPORTANT aspect together with the 21M cap. 
 Taking control and 21M go hand-in-hand. If nobody takes control the 21M falls easily.  
 it is open source 
 Current financial system is killing itself, we don't have to do anything to force bitcoin to win, it will happen naturally.
Natural selection still works. 
 It is a very good reflection of nature

The ideas that align closest to nature always prevail in the end 
 The bigotry?