The most disruptive innovations give people something they didn’t know they needed.
If the current financial system already works for you, it’s easy to say you don’t care about decentralization or permissionlessness.
But Bitcoin wasn’t built for the people closest to the money printer.
It was built for everyone else.
A permissionless, decentralized network removes the need to trust a central authority with the value of your time and energy. The monetary properties people love about Bitcoin exist because of the network properties they dismiss.
Permission list in decentralized our properties that a network requires four trust, just Gail globally across time at at the core. If we all started from scratch it tease properties would be valuable to everyone.
I guess my biggest struggle with crypto is that I just don't care whatsoever about decentralization and permissionless. It seems to me to be essentially the same as the physical gold folks.
The question I ask myself is given that I don't care about that at all is it possible to have a discussion with those who do. My experience over the last 10 years in crypto is it is not possible. In gold it's been 30 years.