The great thing about crypto is that it forced a generation of entrepreneurs to learn how banking, money, and financial systems work. the first step to evolving and ultimately dismantling the existing system is understanding *why* and *how* it exists as is today.

There is such as thing as reading being wasteful because there's too little context. There's been countless times where I read something the first time and it had ZERO impact on me, but then at some later point re-read it at the right time/place and it had an immense impact.

Based on my experience so far, from a payments perspective Lightning is "Bitcoin 2.0", it is "the next Bitcoin". You get a 10x improvement in payments UX and the only cost is completely reasonable tradeoffs re: liveness and liquidity.

Bitcoin is the one chance we have to decentralize power away from the rent seeking ruling class. Don't be distracted by promises, political kayfabe, altcoins or social sedatives. Bitcoin is our one chance at real change.

They say that if you want people to switch from an incumbent, the product or service must be at least 10x better than the existing product. Today I walked into a bank to do some menial banking and was reminded that Bitcoin is at least 10x better than the current system..