Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 07:24:32 PM

Remember: "not your keys not your coins"! So if you don't have keys, you can't be own Bitcoin, and if you don't own Bitcoin, you can't be a user.

Disagree. Although you don't own it always, a user still spends/saves/uses it.

Many people rely on wallets like coinbase because for them its much easier to just have a wallet that stores their crypto rather going through the "complicated" process of having an actual wallet of your own. But the point is, they still use it. We are talking about bitcoin users, and not owners. It is a dumb debate and argument to exist, but it exists so Lips sealed

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Quote from: Husires on Today at 02:28:11 PM

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According to data analyst Willy Wu, there are an estimated 135 million Bitcoin users worldwide. This is less than 2% of the global population. To put that into perspective, PayPal has 361 million user accounts, Facebook has 2.8 billion monthly active users, and the internet in total has an estimated 4.7 billion users.

Interesting, but are we really comparing a cryptocurrency to a broken online payment processor and to an ethic-less social media platform? Come on, bitcoin is better than that. We are better than that. And the stats mean nothing of the real world. So its a broken record.

Quote from: Husires on Today at 02:28:11 PM

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“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Internet critics, 1997
“Its too slow, no one is using it, its too confusing.” – Bitcoin critics, 2021

I liked this particularly, I can't wait for the next generation to be fed up of people who think using bitcoin is a sin and as such. Grin

You know, I am excited to see how the next couple years progresses. It is definitely going to be wild. People are opening up to accepting crypto as a legitimate way of diversifying one's assets, and soon its going to be so cool to see people talking about crypto in public once this motherfuckin pandemic ends for good.