v4ngeli0n on Nostr: People who had idealistic cypherpunk wet dream views about #Bitcoin were inevitably ...
People who had idealistic cypherpunk wet dream views about #Bitcoin were inevitably going to be disappointed when they were forced to get a grip on reality.
It was never going to be the perfect world where everyone runs a node and holds their own keys. I think if Bitcoin was going to meaningfully change the world, it was always going to be absorbed into our current system.
I don’t understand how people are only just seeing this now. Hal Finney saw this with his prediction many years ago, and it’s exactly what’s happening.
Idealists live in fantasy land.
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