communities of not https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/6/communities-of-not/

the distrust of crypto is totally warranted — it's largely speculation and noise. but putting bitcoin in the same bucket is a mistake. they're not the same thing #bitcoin #crypto

i was at a bitcoin meetup yesterday — it was nice meeting like minded people #bitcoin

few understand tcp/ip — yet most use the internet. i have that feeling the same will happen with #bitcoin

there is no "bitcoin balance" in the way you're thinking. on the base layer, paying for pizza would only leak that one utxo — which is not all the bitcoin i own. on lightning, the payment simply fails if i don't have enough on my side of the channel — it's enforced by cryptography, not trust

sure. if you prefer money that can be created out of nothing, fiat is the clear winner

that is a category error. visa is a messaging layer on top of money. bitcoin is money. a fair comparison would be visa vs. the lightning network

bitcoin uses energy, so does any other money. if you don't see value in bitcoin it seems like waste

why doesn't it make sense without sarcasm?

i am not a crypto fan. bitcoin is a genuinely novel discovery. everything else? shitcoins

why?

acceptance may be one of the hardest things in life