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 +1 orange pillers are def in a cult 
 And you can tell that they have no interest in spreading Bitcoin around the world. They’re interested only in uniformity of opinion, everyone using the same language, absolute conformity in behaviour and essentially being one with the group.

Thankfully, Bitcoin spreading everywhere doesn’t depend on people playing dress up, “Podcasters”, ugly Americans and other clown show Cult dynamics. The world will be Bitcoinized.

The question is, “who is going to do it?”. People who refuse to take risk won’t do it. Cult Leader speech police who think Bitcoin is about debates on how many satoshis can fit on the head of a pin won’t do it. Memes won’t do it.

If it were the case that the Bitcoin Cult could work to spread Bitcoin, there would already be billions of people using it. But that isn’t even their ambition. All they want is unquestioning compliance to the cult rules; they don’t care about Bitcoin winning; Bitcoin, for them, literally is Twitter (and now Nostr).

These westerners are like the Eloi in “The Time Traveller”; insipid, detached, emotionless, vapid (“stay humble, stack sats”), weak, human cattle. Compare and contrast with Nigerians, operating in a country where the Government is openly hostile to Bitcoin, and yet it is spreading like wildfire there, making it the number two country on earth for Bitcoin.

Nigerians aren’t interested in Bitcoin Memes and other Eloi infantilism, and yet it has spread rapidly. What are they doing there in Jos, Abuja, Kano and other places, and why is Bitcoin so popular there? No one is asking this amongst the Bitcoin Cult…you can pick your own reason why.

And “Bits” not “Sats”! 
 You do talk alot of
Longwinded nonsense don’t you . JFC ! There are alot of people working on both custodial and non custodial solutions to scale Bitcoin. It’s just plainly obvious non custodial is better for self sovereignty in a very centralised world. That’s not cultist, that is freedom to interact 
 You are a rude an irrelevant they/them; useful only as a foil to demonstrate a class of Bitcoin user. You’ve done you job, now BEGON…uh oh… NOSTR! 
 😂 
 you're just comparing different realities (Nigeria with "first world"). Bitcoinization will happen with different speeds and via different messages and with different means. What do you think is needed (or better what is missing) in the "first world"? 
 There are no “different realities” there is only one reality. It’s like claiming WhatsApp adoption will happen at different rates, “Because Nigerian phone calls are different to Australian phone calls”.

In fact money is more fundamental and universal to life than calls are, so if the utility is there, adoption should be more or less the same everywhere if the playing fills is level (which it clearly isn’t).

What Nigeria and El Salvador both show is that Bitcoin can be used as legal tender and serve the needs of entire countries flawlessly. This is a matter of will now, not specification.
 
 "And you can tell that they have no interest in spreading Bitcoin around the world"

Says the person accusing me of being in a cult 😂

I'm not trying to "spread" bitcoin in the same way I'm not trying to prosyletize hammers, Mr Cultman. If someone is interested they will find it. If someone needs it they will use it. 

I find this "hyperbitcoinization" talk naive (and ironically cultish). Crypto like Bitcoin  thrive in p2p black and gray market. The state is not going to to allow  unhampered white market use with businesses and institutions. Any white market use will be under growing restrictions and become more and more regulated until it is nearly identical to fiat.