That's only a good thing in dictatorships, not in democracies.
=> I really don't care. It's not a pro in my life and my continent ( Europe)
Additionally, Bitcoin is super duper easy to track
Yes, Bitcoin allows you to be a dictator of your personal finances, compared to fiat, a "democratic" system, where people you never voted into power get to press a button and print as much money as they deem necessary to "stimulate" the economy.
Ok. So when nothing special happens in your perfect currency, it divides by 3 or 4 in value in a year.
Yeah, that seems great! Go for it!
I mean, it is the best performing asset of the last 10 years, so yeah, it seems pretty great to anyone who has a brain.
A 98% cash and 2% Bitcoin would beat the SPY returns for any 4 year period since inception. When making investments, its important to have a long term outlook. Do you just live day to day without any planning?
Could you tell me who Satoshi is?
Could you explain how you can track who paid you a Lightning Network invoice?
Have you ever written down a seed phrase or made a Bitcoin transaction on chain?
Nope, because he's been inactive for 14 years. ( 70% of all accounts are inactive anyways - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/11/23/bitcoin-supply-i... )
> Lightning Network
You mean the SQLite database at third parties in some cases? Or the ones hosted at the cloud providers? https://watcher.guru/news/amazon-google-cloud-host-49-of-bit...
I'm not a government, in case you were wondering. I can't track the edge-cases. I don't have access to KYC
Fyi, noticed the mixing services going offline? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Cash
If Bitcoin is so easy to track people why don't you find him?
> You mean the SQLite database at third parties in some cases?
Didn't answer my question, but you know you can run a lightning node at home, right?
> Links to an ETH project
What does that have to do with Bitcoin?