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First off imagine (still) being a YouTube stooge in 2022 knowing fully well the shameless censorship and blatant discrimination against those who dare to think differently. Yeah yeah I know, it's a private company blabla have the right to bla, but their ideals and the fact they are anything but unbiased and definitively not politically neutral is luckily no longer so private anymore and exposed for the whole world to see. This in itself set off a chain reaction they are very silent about and only mention whenever trying to discredit the wave of alternatives that emerged and cleverly take advantage of the witch hunt these established main stream "social" platforms started. OK I get it, YouTube or Facebook or whatever is money to you and you managed to stay on their good side so why put yourself on the line right? I'm not going to make extreme WW2 comparisons here and quote Martin Niemoller's "first they came and I was silent", but I am going to take a shot at your credibility. Because despite all that's been going on in the online world and attacks against privacy and freedom of expression, you somehow think you are in a position to casually ignore it all, reap the benefits from the established tech and still preach to us about how flawed or untrustworthy internet's money aka Bitcoin is from a platform that's a direct participant in those attacks.
I feel I should at least be a bit more specific here without singling anyone out, I'm not referring to crypto Youtubers who are also active on numerous decentralized/crypto platforms and also share their content on Youtube or Facebook or whatever, this is primarily directed at the mainstream bottom feeders who think their content will forever have the silicon valley stamp of approval and if the day comes it actually doesn't, will sell their souls and just delete whatever they published/said just so they can continue to be allowed on their platforms and reel in that ad money. Seriously, they will literally do that, I've seen "influencers" come online crying about how big of a mistake their last video or post was and beg for both their account back and for everyone's forgiveness so they can continue to "influence" them. This includes things that were considered quite common once upon a time such as different political opinions, the number of existing genders or even satire and jokes or just certain clothing or hairstyles that are now deemed insulting. I'm not joking, this is a common occurrence in many West-European and North-American countries, so if you get real for a second and think about it, who is doing the "influencing" here exactly? You or the corporate big bucks that makes you jump through every and any hoop they confront you with and actually make you willingly make an a** of yourself by publicly denouncing yourself? Some of them don't play along with that rigged game though, and I for one applaud them and follow them to whatever alternative platform they go to.
Good for you and never let anyone make you jump through even the easiest hoop, because before you know it they'll have you pondering to jump through this:
But I digress, the main reason for writing this, and I can not do a step-by-step feedback to it without sharing it, is this video right here:
"Bitcoin has been the official currency of El Salvador for an entire year". Factually incorrect from the get-go. Bitcoin has been one of two currencies deemed legal tender in El Salvador. Oddly enough, it's not their own currency (the by 2000 obsolete Colon) that was their sole legal tender and nationally accepted currency last year before they adopted Bitcoin, but the US Dollar, a currency they did not control, could not print, de facto made them a puppet to the foreign will of Washington (if you don't get why, just look at the effect of sanctions on countries who have the US Dollar as their main reserve, let alone the consequences of sanctions and having the Dollar as your fookin national currency) and even had to kick start a nationwide campaign in the early 2000s just so people could understand the value and printings on the bills and coins since English was not their first language and many had no idea what they were looking at when holding Dollar bills. Yeah, nothing odd about that right? But Bitcoin as legal tender? Nah, that's just too crazy and must be talked about in Youtube videos.??
"But Bitcoiners aren't exactly unbiased themselves". Indeed we are not, only you Youtubers are thy holiest of unbiasedness who we count upon to show us the light.???? Nah seriously, you have no conflict of interest whatsoever by being a YouTube bro and sucking in that non skippable, annoying banner, gambling/insurance/alcohol ad money huh? It's us Bitcoin bros who are all just in it for the money and ruining lives by doing what we do. See what I did there, just how the shoe is sometimes suddenly on the other foot, the glove can fit just as easily on the ad-sense begging hand.??
It then goes on about Max Keizer and his family for a while, not really anything noteworthy to respond to till the video goes on to "start with the most obvious place: the price". Ahhh now we're talking, the same people who ignore Bitcoin's world-wide adoption and price charts since it's inception, always start off with the price for some reason when trying to make their point. Something tells me if Bitcoin is idle at 100.000 next year, these will be the exact same people who'll compare how much Bitcoin El Salvador bought during the crash to 20.000 and conclude something like "see, it's not suitable as legal tender, El Salvador was too unsure to accumulate more Bitcoin after the crash from 60.000 and missed out on a lot of opportunity and now has to buy expensive Bitcoins to service their citizen's needs." This is just speculating from my part of course but the point stands just the same as these are the type of weird conclusions people have been drawing about Bitcoin for about a decade,
only to eventually wake up to the harsh realities of life
and then feel they have to double down.??
Anyways, going back OT: "70% of their citizens don't even have a bank". Yeah...that's sort of the main point of Bitcoin. Not "making money" or increasing your net value, but to actually provide everyone access to money and digital value you can send abroad all around the world without banks or untrustworthy payment services. "Alright that argument makes sense, crypto is going to allow people without a bank to have one". Yes, finally someone gets it. "The people who are most likely to know about Chivo and cryptocurrency, are exactly the people who don't need it, they are most likely already banked, educated and have cell phones with internet." Banked with WHAT? Did you suddenly in the middle of making your own video forget the main issue at hand? Remember, El Salvador? No national currency as legal tender but a foreign one? Now introducing Bitcoin as legal tender along with the wallet aka bank account people will now finally have access to? Yes I get it, it can be scary and difficult for some to learn about Bitcoin and it's use, but this point of "yeah, so it's not for everyone" is like saying don't bother with teaching children math anymore because all phones have built in calculators. Of course the first year will have the more tech savvy Salvadorians adopt Chivo and Bitcoin faster than their grandparent, I mean, is this even something that's unusual or surprising to you? Just like when alts first emerged people started to trade Bitcoin for other cryptos and not suddenly jump in with Euros and Dollars, circumvent Bitcoin and start hodling solely Peercoin.
This part here is my absolute favorite. "In the press, I have to say those aren't the people in the front lines, that award goes to rich people". Mans actually complains to us about the way Bitcoin is reported in the media and how they basically ignore the improvements it makes for ordinary people and focus only on the glamour involving crypto. Yeah, get in line brah, I'll promise you you'll quit half way since complaining about how Bitcoin is being portrayed in the media has been our turf for well over a decade now. His narrative then somehow comes back to Max Keizer and his corresponding with Bukele, and then wants to "leave you with this question....who is the Bitcoin push benefiting?" Look to be fair, all in all he's not being overly critical of Bitcoin or El Salvador for that matter, but it just annoys me how the utterly insane status quo of today has become so normal to them. These are the people that only question change, not the insane and border line exploiting ways things have been for millions of people for many years. IDK people just think differently I guess. To me, having millions of people start controlling their own sovereignty and financial independence is more important than complaining about how Bitcoin is not at ATHs anymore since they adopted it one year ago. El Salvador has had the Dollar as their sole legal tender currency for over 2 decades now and all it took was a US backed military coup in their country which led to a civil war that lasted over a decade and created a downwards spiral of foreign debt and economic turmoil that has not recovered ever since. Damn that Bitcoin dependency and "the rich" who are the main ones to benefit from it, I totally have to make a video about it now without going to deep of course and risk providing any inconvenient historic background or relevant context and bag me some of those pre-approved ad Dollars I'm eligible for unlike the thousands of others who'd been purged most likely because they did share inconvenient content, because that's just the unbiased investigative kind of guy I am. Gawd you Bitcoin bros make me sick.??
