Back in 2016, Andreas Antonopoulos highlighted a troubling trend: as physical cash gradually disappears, direct person-to-person payments are becoming rare. Weâre increasingly forced to rely on intermediary corporationsâbanks, payment processors, and tech giantsâthat handle our transactions for us. These middlemen take a cut at every step and, in the process, subject us to growing levels of surveillance and control over our financial lives.
Bitcoin fundamentally solves this problem. It enables true peer-to-peer transfers of valueâno trusted third parties required, no fees siphoned off unnecessarily, and far less centralized oversight.
The real question now is: when will more people recognize and prioritize this powerful feature of direct, permissionless value transfer?
https://x.com/saylordocs/status/2029114876313125319
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