Honestly, I have completely given up on criticizing BTC - there was a reddit thread about post-apocalyptic society, and the BTC zealots were arguing that was the perfect place for cryptocurrency.
The argument was that, after society had completely collapsed, and people were killing each other over food and water, there would still be a need for wealth transfer and escrow services.
That is when I realized that I shouldn't take most BTC/crypto arguments seriously, because the people are way too invested personally and economically to be rational.
Instead of being a jerk and trying to shut down a conversation, and making completely unwarranted assumptions about people participating in it, perhaps you could actually make the case. Yeah?
When Bitcoiners bring actual facts to the table, people ignore it.
Bitcoin has been used in the El Zonte town for some time now and lightning is functioning and allows almost instant and practically free Bitcoin payments, yet if you read half the comments here, Bitcoin is very slow/inefficient system and is only used by criminals.
Maybe before such an ad hominem you need to become a bit more familiar with recent developments in El salvador. Associating this government initiative with criminality is a very reasonable thing to do.
I read the article and then I did some more research. His government was elected with a significant majority. Per the constitution they have a legal right to replace judges and even though the article skips those facts they never actually claim criminality - since there is no evidence of such.
Looking back at history, El Salvadore was devastated by a 12 year long civil war [1] in the 1980’s funded to the tune of $1-2 million USD per day by the US Government (Carter and Reagan administrations) funding child soldiers and such - let’s talk about that criminality.
