The crowd at Stacker News can be quite difficult to please

The crowd at Stacker News can be quite difficult to please. Some of them are die-hard maxis and have called me out more than for ‘shitcoining’. Oops. 

Still, whenever an opportunity arises for me to post there, I won’t say nope to it. My wallet needs an influx of sats. Hence, when someone asked users to share what they thought was the best takedown of Bitcoin, I posted the following comment: 

I think BTC will fail because the general public are not incentivised to think for themselves and are bound by the herd mentality. Bitcoin is originally intended to be a private exchange of currency between peer to peer, but BINANCE is now banned in Singapore because it enabled this very feature during its operations here. Some of my countrymen might believe in the narrative spun by our central bank - that peer to peer BTC exchanges might facilitate money laundering and other shady practices. This leads to Bitcoin being negatively associated with dirty money in their minds. Our fiat is fighting a losing battle against inflation but their minds are preoccupied with hustling more to get more fiat, not with Bitcoin as a viable alternative currency. We are lucky that we are not Venezuelans or Turkish people who are suffering from hyperinflation and HAVE to resort to Bitcoin.

I gained 22 sats as a result. Not much, but considering that I wrote this in the middle of the night, exhausted after a hectic day of working and parenting, I will give myself a pat on the shoulder. Honestly, I’m quite proud of myself for being able to gain some sats on a forum that can be quite harsh on non-Bitcoiners. This means that my writing is not too shabby.

And of course, I can count on some of you supportive folks out there to tip me here. Haha.