I'm afraid you're right.
Most Bitcoiners are huge hypocrites, they give zero fucks about freedom, they only care about fiat gains...
Hell, I don't even pay attention to BTC/USD these days anymore (I no longer participate in price discussions). I know the price is rising, but what's the point?
I don't understand why they trade bitcoin for pump and dump... there are many stocks which they can use only for this purpose alone. My guess is, It is probably crypto is the first asset they learned to trade and they think it is the only asset which can go moon.
On one hand, we will have bitcoin which will become ultra-institutionalized, fully KYC enabled, censored, high fees (thx to ordinals), good performer against FIAT, available on every exchange
On other hand, we will have XMR. Zero KYC, zero adoption, shit price performance (when this is over, will it even have a price i wonder), zero censorship, low fees. We won't even find a place to convert it to FIAT. No legit business will accept it too.
:/
*Also, fuck F2Pool. I could at least understand why a wallet would do it, but for a bitcoin miner to violate the decentralization of the network they directly profit from is a mortal sin.
This is what I struggled with the most..the fact that one of the largest pools is openly violating one of the core principles of the network is just shocking.
I really want to understand their motivation for censoring the transactions in the first place. Would they even face any legal issues if they simply included the transaction? How does F2Pool benefit from the censorship? Political ass-kissing?
Their motivation is simple. They are following the law. Either they censor the tx, or they will go to jail.
Is there a business which pay taxes to the gov can say no to "KYC"?
Miners pay taxes too. How are they gonna ignore the gov?
R.I.P.
We can only solve this problem if we bring home mining back and it ain't coming back.