A bit of honest introspection about where we are facing some headwinds in bitcoin adoption
Optimism is good, but it should be grounded optimism. If you want to win a World Cup, you don’t win it by ignoring your setbacks and weaknesses, you win by analysing these and learning from them.
Bitcoin adoption had a few setbacks last year that are seldom acknowledged, let alone analyzed, let alone learned from. This article is an attempt to analyze the video footage of our 2025 institutional game and come up with some suggested improvements for this year.
https://x.com/dsbatten/status/2018703888711397779?s=46
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