> I bullshitted my way through college. You can't bullshit your way through bitcoin.<p>Correction; you can bullshit Bitcoin on <i>every layer but</i> the transactional one. For the overwhelming majority (90%+) of the world's population, the blockchain might as well not exist. These people do not want to deal with self-custody, on-chain validation, gas fees, tax headaches, or any of the nerd porn that you and I jerk off to. It would not matter if the blockchain did your laundry and made you food, the world is not going to use Bitcoin without an abstraction (and every abstraction leaks).<p>If <i>you</i> want to enjoy Bitcoin, knock yourself out. Calling your opposition "mind control" is a pretty enormous rhetorical red flag that will turn most people away from <i>whatever</i> you're promoting: "Come check out Bill O' Reilly's Car Dealership - Our Mind-Controlled opponents won't stop the O' Reilly Revolution!"<p>If you don't argue in good faith, nobody will stand up for you when academics and Pulitzer winners ignore your points.