Its tempting for those of us who want Bitcoin to succeed to dumb it down, to make fundamental compromises on things like self custody, prioritize convenience, package it as an ETF so that we can get more people on the Bitcoin train and "number can go up". But if how we conceptualize, design and explain our business and software is driven by this, by trying to make Bitcoin into a system rather than a tool we fail in our mission to use Bitcoin as performance art.
To push these people to think, to participate in creating something better than what we currently have, to be actors rather than passive consumers of someone elses instructions. Without this, rather than re-inventing the finacial system we will just recreate it with an orange coat of paint. An entertaining asset in the same technological dystopia we cirrently inhabit.
Bitcoin is performance art an object we can and should use to tell a different story, not just Digital Gold or Unstoppable Payments, but a vision of a world where our technologies serve us, are able to be molded by us and allow us to decide and shape the context of the world in which we inhabit. A world we dont have to, and we shouldn't compromise. For anything.
