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After reading Hijacking Bitcoin by Roger Ver, I have been really interested in Bitcoin Cash, mostly because BCH is the continuation of the original Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System as defined by Satoshi's white paper. At the Bitcoin conference I met the team from @SeleneWallet who designed their wallet to pass the "mom test." They onboarded me in literally 5 min, and that was just the time it took to download the wallet from the App Store! I’m looking forward to trying out my Selene Wallet out in the wild!

I used to believe that Bitcoin could free us from government coercion, since government’s power comes primarily from their ability to control the money supply. (By having decentralized currency that they can’t control, we could opt out of their wars, inflation, etc) Today I understand that Bitcoin was a promise that has since been corrupted either on purpose, or by sheer greed. Bitcoin started off as peer to peer digital cash, and today it’s more akin to digital gold. Still useful, but it’s just not going to be used for every day transactions. Of course, I can’t help but believe that because of the threat Bitcoin posed for the government, the government had big incentives to infiltrate it and made it less threatening. And just like everything else they do, they started wars among Bitcoiners to splinter the community and drive them to “war”. (The Bitcoin block size war, for example) We can’t have nice things because the incentive for the government (that has unlimited resources) is always going to be to protect themselves, and there will always be bad actors who are for sale. Satoshi had a vision for world peace, but the government destroyed it to keep control and keep us at war. My 2 cents, but I could be wrong.