are being promoted by companies
This is where you lost me.
We are controlled by the money masters, the more I can escape that control the less I embrace my enslavement.
Crapitalism is not here to save us.
https://archive.org/details/ironhee00lond/mode/2up
I completely respect if you want to escape the system, there's a lot that can be done completely peer-to-peer, I agree. Most people in cities, however, have jobs to pay for goods and services from local business owners and until now they've only been able to do so with fiat currency.
I think by using Bitcoin Lightning they are starting to be exposed to concepts of self-custody, peer-to-peer, etc. Some will continue down the rabbit hole and some will stay on the surface. I kind of like the idea of decentralization being pushed by Bitcoin.
I guess what I'm trying to say is I don't think BTC is dead. I think it's just getting started.
By the way, I'm not here to shit on your ideas, just trying to have healthy dialogue :)
It's great to read your perspective.
Yes, those late to the party will be led by the nose.
I think it is necessary to inform them that better options exist.
Which is why I spoke up.
Btc kicked down the door and now it is time for the entry team to offer better options, imo.
Btc likely becomes the reserve currency used by gov'ts to be transparent, but anybody that loves freedom will migrate to privacy coins as tyranny increases control over crypto.
The sooner the newbs learn that, the better, iyam.