Quote from: hv_ on April 06, 2025, 08:15:44 PM

Mostly correct Justin
Only BSV still working as set in stone by Satoshi

https://x.com/Justin_Bons/status/1908570325576528025

You are in a fantasylandia hv_ if you are thinking that there is something meaningfully broken in bitcoin, as compared with any alternative, whether speaking about that shitcoin Bcash SV or any other shitcoin.

In fact, even if bitcoin we might give some benefits of the doubt and concede that there could be some areas in which bitcoin could have some areas in which it is lacking some decentralization or maybe bitcoin is vulnerable to some kinds of controls, such as it being channeled into 3rd party custodian arrangements, still what other coin is even close to competing with bitcoin - including that bitcoin is likely in the ballpark of 1,000x better than either gold or the dollar fiat system, even though it could take 50-200 years to resolve bitcoin's fair market pricing as compared to gold and/or the dollar which are currently fairly dominant monetary systems that are not as good of a money as bitcoin.

You know money? referring to transportability, verifiability, divisibility, scarcity, ability to transact with it directly like a bearer asset, lack of third party costs in regards to holding/transporting it, security of the network, and with bitcoin programability. There are no real competitors, and sure we can look at the development and growth of bitcoin's network effects (in light of [urlhttps://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/the-seven-network-effects-of-bitcoin/]Trace Mayer's outlining these[/url]) as compared with other money assets too.

By the way, since bitcoin is around 1,000x better than various monies, such as gold and the dollar, it is going to continue to grow and gain market share.

The Mike Hearn interview was not bad.. He does seem to continue to be bitter about the direction of bitcoin and presuming bitcoin to be broken in various ways.. and it could also be due to the softball and BSV oriented approach of that journalist, so perhaps Hearn continues to have fun staying poor if he, also, cannot recognize and/or appreciate the ongoing value of bitcoin and whether he ever bought back into bitcoin rather than holding positions in various shitcoins, if that might be where some of these guys seem to be going with their ongoing failures to be be able to actually embrace bitcoin for what it is rather than what they want it to be or their imaginations that bitcoin is controlled by Blockstream, and/or their other vague nonsense perspectives...