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Joe Nakamoto
@joenakamoto
Gm Gm 🇬🇧 🇵🇹


Unpopular opinion:

The whole “bitcoin is freedom” argument tends to fall on deaf ears in Western Europe

We’ve had it good here for quite some time
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Boglander · 16w
GM, Joe. Too comfortable. They'll wait till the shit hits the fan. Be too late then....? Have a fruitful day.
BankSith · 16w
100%. They can not end it. But try to regulate it to death.
bitcoinpoorguy 比特幣傢伙 · 16w
Gm Gm We are still so fucking early
Brisket · 16w
I think it's amusing how Bitcoin seems to selectively reveal its true self to certain people & not others. It comes back to Bitcoin being a mirror.
CY₿3RPUNK H3RO · 16w
gm
DarthCoin ₿⚡️ · 16w
Yes, that saying is stupid, as long as people still go to vote politicians that will always try to regulate Bitcoin... https://blossom.primal.net/5924eb02a821c076691381a5e759c67421c61bdd71e5ebb876ac19aa2affe345.png
il_lost_ · 16w
american speculative assets...
wolfpy · 16w
Times change
Benking · 16w
GM Joe ☕️🫂 True, comfort can mute the signal. But freedom feels ‘optional’… until the day it suddenly isn’t. Bitcoin is the parachute you pack before the turbulence hits.
Marius · 16w
How's it "freedom" if it's not anonymous and private by default 🤣. It is a little bit of freedom.
CitizenPedro · 16w
That's exactly it. In Portugal (which I know you're in and me too :D) for example people have zero idea about what money is, how the Euro is the worse possible money for them, especially the non asset bearers (young people). The older people don't understand that the Euro can end and thus that thei...
Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town · 16w
Until it isn’t.
Alvaro · 16w
Not that I want that, but probably only something of the scale of a war in WE can create the awakening incentive for the masses. It’s just too comfortable to live in a closed system , even at the expense of getting poorer, dumber, and less free than people outside of that system
Asdf · 16w
It's probably financial privilege and not knowing anything about Bitcoin, other than the price, that they won't buy it, except for all the crash coins.
foubaar · 16w
Western Europe is in a coma.
Horszt · 16w
Western Europe is for the streets, honestly. Eastern Europe is where the motion comes from!
Milan Ljepoja · 16w
Good morning🌞 Bitcoin can be your tool for freedom.
BTCclimber · 16w
Sadly true, we're increasingly repressed, but most haven't noticed. Our hovernments have been turning up the heat and boiling the frog with almost perfection. Even after Covid, most have no awareness as to what's happening
Tomé · 16w
It's not unpopular, it's realty. And most that know about it just care about the ngu
Jetty Fedi GrapheneOS · 16w
This is SO true. We can't even be honest amongst ourselves Bitcoiners about that basic point.