Not Going To Happen...

It is futile at this point to reiterate a thousand times what Bitcoin was designed for, but if you didn't know that already, I'll give you a hint: definitely not for being the subject of a spot ETF. No sir, Bitcoin was designed to serve everyone, everywhere, as a currency of exchange.

It was supposed to serve me, you, the banker, the drug dealer, and everyone on this planet, and there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with drug dealers having a currency of exchange for their drugs because that ultimately means we, the privacy-oriented individuals, benefit from the same attributes of Bitcoin.

Drug dealing and all sorts of criminal activities that have been attributed to Bitcoin in the past won't be stopped by taking control over the blockchains involved in that. It's like banning knives to stop stabbing killers. The human mind and our earthly experience are too cocky to be chained and limited.

Mastercard recently released a video with their new product: sending money between peers through cryptocurrency blockchains is now possible thanks to the money-transmitting company. Much wow...

I bet plenty of retards in the crypto community will praise that and call it the next mass adoption step for crypto. What they probably miss is the fact that in order to send funds using a username instead of a wallet address through Mastercard, you will have to KYC...

Mastercard is not Monero or Hive. No sir, the service is basically the same shit as regular money transmitting services but slightly revamped. Behind the username, there's a whole stack of data collected every time someone uses such services. Mastercard can't go anonymous with their transactions because it would cease to exist if it did that.

Thus far, 99% of the money in circulation is centralized, with very few options available to individuals around the world where one can use crypto anonymously to buy all sorts of stuff. The elites have already lost their grip on the internet; they can't lose it on money too...

I don't know if some influencers are intentionally that dumb when preaching such a move from Mastercard as mass adoption for crypto, or if they are doing it for clicks and views. Personally, I am not excited about that.

Technically, I am totally against being a number as the system is trying to make us be, but there is an instance when I would not be bothered being a number: that is, being a decentralized blockchain wallet address that would allow me to spend funds everywhere using such a wallet address, travel, engage on social media, and so on and so forth.

It is a bit late for that though, as I have KYC'd too much in the past years since I joined crypto. If there was somehow an option to onboard crypto without having to use a CEX and go through KYC, and from there be able to trade, spend, and "sign contracts" using just a wallet address, I would definitely love being just a number.

I am perfectly aware that would never be possible, and I am also not praising Mastercard's latest "breakthrough crypto mass adoption." Just my two cents...

Thanks for your attention,
Adrian