How about peanuts? Paper clips? About 1000 different shitcoins? PayPal and Venmo can transfer value just as well, so why use Bitcoin at all then?
This argument sounds to me like Bitcoin is “just as good as fiat” because they can both represent a fairly equal value of something, not “Bitcoin is better money.”
I don’t buy that personally. What about the hidden costs of using fiat? Enriching credit card companies and banks vs. paying a few sats to a lightning node operator? Paying taxes to politicians and governments instead of using P2P permissionless uncensorable money. Every transaction is a vote for one system vs. another.
At some point we have to decide which side to orient our lives around. There’s no right answer. But if bitcoiners themselves don’t believe in all the things they preach like “sats are the standard”, “End the Fed”, “There is no second best” etc, then Bitcoin will not have much of a future.
SweetSats
npub1sw…hns6h
2026-02-27 12:56:16 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…34w9
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