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Kick-starting #Bitcoin #SkepticismSundays ๐Ÿ˜Ž

One of the things that showed me the intellectual honesty of the Monero community and helped to force the community to stay grounded in reality and always laser focused on their core ethos was their weekly "Skepticism Sunday" Reddit threads. These threads allowed the community to come together, ask hard and skeptical questions about the design of Monero, the privacy provided, the economic approach, and much more.

In my time in Bitcoin I've never seen anything similar, but the nuanced and high-signal crowd on Nostr seems like a perfect fit to fire things up and see how it goes.

The goal of this thread (which I'll post weekly on Sunday's) is for discussing the uncertainties, shortcomings, and concerns some may have about Bitcoin.

NOT the positive aspects of it.

Discussing things with a critical thinking approach and level-headed discussion helps us learn where Bitcoin and it's community can improve and go from there.

I know this is late on Sunday, will post earlier next week but would love to hear y'all's thoughts on the concept or skepticism ๐Ÿ™‚
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rare · 161w
One of my main concerns is a lack of privacy features, scaling on-chain issues and potential centralization factor of the Lightning Network. On the privacy issue, you brought up some great points with #[2]'s podcast about UTXOs can leak info... Maybe this is something that can be solved at the wall...
Meister Eder · 161w
The narrative NgU/ hyperbitcoinization at all cost are in my book the most dangerous aspects. Bitcoin helps in becoming a sovereign individual. But If the monopolist of force will adopt it too early, there will be a huge spectrum of social engineering to bitcoin usage, if the people have not gain...
Jac · 161w
Iโ€™m skeptical that BTC will have meaningful fungibility because of the difficulty with obfuscating transaction sources and destinations. This visibility could be used as justification for reducing the value or seizing coins by regulating and law enforcement agencies because of their legacy in crim...
nostrich · 161w
Too late to party? The bitcoin community is growing memetically stagnant. It took an actual bitcoin adversary to give us one of the most prolific pieces of bitcoin art ever created. We need more punk rock, heavy metal, drugs, and skanks. If I had kids they wouldn't find us very cool.
Lloyd Dunne · 161w
Anti-bitcoin podcast in 3, 2, 1โ€ฆ fr this is good to discuss though. Someone should actually set up a podcast for this #[0]
Betty von Schmartenhausen · 161w
Great idea. Much needed. Be careful, you may be accused of FUD if you discuss any concerns or air any criticisms.
David Klemperer · 161w
Love this idea, Seth. Will help the community become more resilient and self-aware. ๐Ÿ™
Mallard Beakman · 161w
I have some concerns I will acknowledge here, which I hope will not be dismissed as vile shitcoiner FUD. 1. There appears to be a fundamental and intractable tension between self-custody and scalability. Fedimint, for instance, has been proposed as a technique to scale Bitcoin to billions of users....