Oddbean

I feel I am at a cross road. Maybe many if you do to. Do we stay and change our environments or move to the places that cater to our lifestyle as bitcoiners? I would argue, that it is much easier to move. But it is more rewarding if you stay and help build the new community that hopefully embraces decentralization. I think a big component of that starts at the point of sales systems in commerce. The hardest part isn't going to be implementing the software, it's going to be convincing merchants that they should accept bitcoin. #randomthoughts

Personal take I think it depends on what part of the adoption curve you think we're on. If it's still early days, I would move to the environment that more caters to your lifestyle as a bitcoiner If you think we're later in the adoption cycle, stay where you're at and help build a community Everything else you said I feel is completely legit with point of sale systems, etc. The system needs to evolve

Personally I like the Mexico idea. I recently invested a chunk of my Capital into Mexico for the long-term. So with that being said, I would probably do the exact opposite because I'm always wrong Anyhow, good luck with your decision. You definitely have a hard decision to make because you have two really good choices. Good luck!

My family is in Mexico. I didn't really have a choice coming to the US. Long story short it was an ultimatum. But now I have to opportunity to go back home. Perhaps a slow burn phasing out my American lifestyle. I'll have to reassimilate and unlearn some things. Hope your venture is fruitful. Godspeed.

Align the incentives and the merchants will feel silly not to join. Thats when it will happen. Making tax filing for a business is a huge win. Example: BTCPAY has an integration with quickbooks etc…

I never felt comfortable as a preacher. Came to the conclusion that the best (and maybe the only) way is by the example, you know asking if they accept and tip generously when they do. But life’s easier among the ones who gets it. For instance I started to use business that accept gift cards like @Bitrefill or @cakewallet's #cakePay. And it feels good

You should live wherever is best for your health and soul, regardless of the local pace of adoption. I always guessed the only way to really orange-pill others is to offer a much needed service or product with a huge discount for paying with #Bitcoin. People will work to save 50%

I would go or stay where Bitcoin (as money) is at least tolerated and not taxed to death or criminalized. I am currently in Brazil and is intolerable to see how people are forced to be outlaws if they want to be free, because of a state, that is "protecting" them, every step of their lives. Many of those people fancy the fact of having to become rebels (for sure it is fun at the beginning), but rebels do not have a pleasant life. Rebels become ideologues, or radicals. If love was not the most important thing I would move into being a subject of a better nation-state. So IMO it all comes to the question of how a pleasant or turbulent of a life you Sr. want to have. I would aim for a country whose "contract" maximizes predictable rule of law & freedom (by action or inaction) with the least abusive T&Cs. Don't know where that country is, but if you find out, please let me know. Cheers!

"The Courage to Create" by Rollo May (1975) We are living at a time when one age is dying and the new age is not yet born. We cannot doubt this as we look about us to see the radical changes in sexual mores, in marriage styles, in family structures, in education, in religion, technology, and almost every other aspect of modern life. And behind it all is the threat of the atom bomb, which recedes into the distance but never disappears. To live with sensitivity in this age of limbo indeed requires courage. A choice confronts us. Shall we, as we feel our foundations shaking, withdraw in anxiety and panic? Frightened by the loss of our familiar mooring places, shall we become paralyzed and cover our inaction with apathy? If we do those things, we will have surrendered our chance to participate in forming the future. We will have forfeited the distinctive characteristic of human beings--namely, to influence our evolution through our own awareness. We will have capitulated to the blind juggernaut of history and lost the chance to mold the future into a society more equitable and humane. Or shall we seize the courage necessary to preserve our sensitivity, awareness, and responsibility in the face of radical changes? Shall we consciously participate, on however small the scale, in the forming of the new society? I hope our choice will be the latter, for I shall speak on that basis. We are called upon to do something new, to confront a no man's land, to push into a forest where there are no well-worn paths and from which no one has returned to guide us. This is what the existentialists call the anxiety of nothingness. To live into the future means to leap into the unknown, and this requires a degree of courage for which there is no immediate precedent and which few people realize.

I think people adopt it when they have to. you can't change them' so its just a matter of can you wait and deal with the shit shown that will make them change or do you just change to where its better already?

If Block continues to integrate Bitcoin in everything they do and make a killer good payments integration for it in their Square suite that works with CashApp as well as other cheap Bitcoin wallet solutions, and the government doesn't harass the absolute shit out of them, the ease of service and the realization that a growing number of people are using Bitcoin to pay will incentivize small businesses to start getting on the bandwagon. Square is already the best and most frictionless payments solution for small businesses out there. Killer products right under people's noses are hard to ignore.