Please read it, and let us know if that changed any of your views, particularly about decentralization. Right now, it seems that you think btc is very decentralized while Roger thinks it’s very centralized around Blockstream.

Feel free to make a new post, I am genuinely interested in other POVs.

Thank you! I was thinking that people on this instance were downvoting the post right after seeing the title, and without reading it. It makes more sense now.

Why the downvotes?

Thanks! Please share it far and wide

That’s actually a great idea, I didn’t have an account but here it is: https://mastodon.social/@ArseneSpeculoos
I will be posting this episode and the next ones there too, thanks!

I agree with you, degen gambling is currently the most successful use-case but it is not the only one and many new ones are coming, also thanks to the success of that use-case.

I have nothing against degen gambling personally. Here I mean that among the ways people use it right now, degen gambling is the most popular.
The way I see it the underlying tech is just a tool that can be used to achieve this or that goal.
Degen gambling is not an intrinsic attribute of cryptocurrencies and I think that saying that it is the current killer app does not tarnish the tool or the goals of people creating/using it.

In another episode I should discuss more what I mean by degen gambling I guess.

What do you think of the other point: “The US Dollar, the Euro, the Japanese Yen,… fiat money is also degen gambling.”?