Oddbean new post about login | logout Fun fact: it came from nowhere 15 years ago, and now it worth $61000 with increasing adoption. Quite funny, that noone enforces bitcoin, but still it is adopted more and more. 🤷
that’s what i find interesting, i feel the level of adoption is not significantly different than where we were in 2017. we have many new toys and ETFs, but still nobody wants to use bitcoin as money.
As long as fiat liquidity exists, the normal folk really have no reason to adopt it as money imo
in other words: it's a failure
Normal people don’t seek to solve problems that don’t yet exist. Are there any games where everyone can be a winner?
I think this totally depends on incentives. As digital payment alternative I think it has some way to go in a sense, that it can be cheaper than a traditional visa/mastercard POS. So from merchant point of view, it is a good alternative. What do you think?
in theory, custodial btc should cost the same to transact in as any fiat solution. if @jack decided to let ppl choose to use/accept bitcoin via square tomorrow- would ppl use bitcoin as money?
I am not sure about the first statement. Generally card payments are closed systems, therefore quite hard to get in. This prevents high competition in my opinion. Therefore they can set their prices high. This is harder to achieve on an open protocol. I would use this to explain why there is quite limited number of known card payment companies. For the question, another question: Do you think people generally understand bitcoin?
But definitely, the average user of digital payments (the customer), as they pay no fee for digital payments, has zero to null reason to move.
idk what client you use, but it’s reply system is broken
Or I am broken. Never underestimate human stupidity 😂
I chose to reply to the same comment, I already replied to btw. If this is what you meant.