Here’s the deal: Mastercard's got a racket going, and nobody bats an eye.
You buy a $4 coffee, and by the time the transaction’s done, Mastercard and its buddies have dipped their grubby hands in for about 37 cents in fees. Doesn’t sound like much until you realise what that means for the small to medium retailer.
Their margins?
Sliced to ribbons.
The little guy selling coffee isn’t swimming in profits—he’s treading water. Every swipe chips away at what he’s worked for. It's daylight robbery with a smile and a shiny card reader.
Now, Mastercard will tell you they’re providing a service—"facilitating payments," they say, as if moving numbers between banks is some Herculean task in the digital age.
But let’s call it what it is: an empire of middlemen built to profit off every latte, sandwich, and tank of gas. The system isn’t designed to help you; it’s designed to bleed everyone—merchants, consumers, anyone who dares participate in the economy.
And this? This is what people call "innovation."
But then there’s BTC.
Or rather, what BTC as the fake cash Bitcoin was supposed to be. Digital cash, they said. Freedom from middlemen. Except, somewhere along the way, BTC became a parody of itself.
The fees? Higher than Mastercard, higher than Visa, higher than any sane person should tolerate. You try buying a coffee with BTC, and you’ll find yourself paying $5 in fees for a $4 drink.
It is laughable—like trying to squeeze an elephant through a keyhole. They’ll tell you it’s "digital gold," a "store of value," but let’s not mince words: BTC is about as useful as a rubber cheque in a windstorm when it comes to everyday transactions.
The problem isn’t just the fees. It’s the philosophy. BTC sold itself as the future of money, but what it delivered was a speculative asset for gamblers and grifters. It’s not digital cash. It’s not even close. What we need, what the world needs, is something that actually works—something that can handle the load of real commerce without collapsing under its own arrogance.
Enter the real potential of Bitcoin, the original vision.
Not the bastardised mess we see today, but the idea of a system that can process millions of transactions per second, with fees so low they’re practically invisible—fractions of a cent, less than 1/100th of a cent. Imagine a world where you can buy that $4 coffee and the fee is a rounding error, not a bloody tax.
A world where merchants keep their profits, where middlemen are stripped of their power, and where money flows as freely as conversation.
This isn’t some utopian fantasy; it’s achievable. NOW!
The technology exists. The infrastructure can be built. But it requires a return to the principles that made Bitcoin revolutionary in the first place: scalability, efficiency, and a focus on enabling real-world commerce. Not hodling. Not speculative bubbles. Real. Bloody. Transactions.
Think about what that means for the global economy. Small businesses thrive because they’re not handing over chunks of their revenue to parasitic payment processors. Micropayments become viable, opening up new markets and possibilities—pay-per-article journalism, real-time streaming payments, tipping systems that don’t gouge the giver or the receiver. Entire industries could be transformed, not by greed, but by practicality.
The beauty of it all?
It’s decentralised—not in the buzzword sense, but in the way that matters. No single entity controls it. No Mastercard, no Visa, no central bank skimming off the top. It’s a system where the power is in the protocol, where the rules are set and cannot be changed on a whim to benefit the few at the expense of the many.
So, the next time someone tells you BTC is the future, laugh. Laugh because the real future isn’t in skyrocketing fees and elitist nonsense. The real future is in a system that does what money is supposed to do: enable trade, foster trust, and get out of the bloody way. That’s Bitcoin. That’s digital cash. And that’s the revolution worth fighting for.
1/4
CSW
Jan 10, 2025
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2482
You buy a $4 coffee, and by the time the transaction’s done, Mastercard and its buddies have dipped their grubby hands in for about 37 cents in fees. Doesn’t sound like much until you realise what that means for the small to medium retailer.
Their margins?
Sliced to ribbons.
The little guy selling coffee isn’t swimming in profits—he’s treading water. Every swipe chips away at what he’s worked for. It's daylight robbery with a smile and a shiny card reader.
Now, Mastercard will tell you they’re providing a service—"facilitating payments," they say, as if moving numbers between banks is some Herculean task in the digital age.
But let’s call it what it is: an empire of middlemen built to profit off every latte, sandwich, and tank of gas. The system isn’t designed to help you; it’s designed to bleed everyone—merchants, consumers, anyone who dares participate in the economy.
And this? This is what people call "innovation."
But then there’s BTC.
Or rather, what BTC as the fake cash Bitcoin was supposed to be. Digital cash, they said. Freedom from middlemen. Except, somewhere along the way, BTC became a parody of itself.
The fees? Higher than Mastercard, higher than Visa, higher than any sane person should tolerate. You try buying a coffee with BTC, and you’ll find yourself paying $5 in fees for a $4 drink.
It is laughable—like trying to squeeze an elephant through a keyhole. They’ll tell you it’s "digital gold," a "store of value," but let’s not mince words: BTC is about as useful as a rubber cheque in a windstorm when it comes to everyday transactions.
The problem isn’t just the fees. It’s the philosophy. BTC sold itself as the future of money, but what it delivered was a speculative asset for gamblers and grifters. It’s not digital cash. It’s not even close. What we need, what the world needs, is something that actually works—something that can handle the load of real commerce without collapsing under its own arrogance.
Enter the real potential of Bitcoin, the original vision.
Not the bastardised mess we see today, but the idea of a system that can process millions of transactions per second, with fees so low they’re practically invisible—fractions of a cent, less than 1/100th of a cent. Imagine a world where you can buy that $4 coffee and the fee is a rounding error, not a bloody tax.
A world where merchants keep their profits, where middlemen are stripped of their power, and where money flows as freely as conversation.
This isn’t some utopian fantasy; it’s achievable. NOW!
The technology exists. The infrastructure can be built. But it requires a return to the principles that made Bitcoin revolutionary in the first place: scalability, efficiency, and a focus on enabling real-world commerce. Not hodling. Not speculative bubbles. Real. Bloody. Transactions.
Think about what that means for the global economy. Small businesses thrive because they’re not handing over chunks of their revenue to parasitic payment processors. Micropayments become viable, opening up new markets and possibilities—pay-per-article journalism, real-time streaming payments, tipping systems that don’t gouge the giver or the receiver. Entire industries could be transformed, not by greed, but by practicality.
The beauty of it all?
It’s decentralised—not in the buzzword sense, but in the way that matters. No single entity controls it. No Mastercard, no Visa, no central bank skimming off the top. It’s a system where the power is in the protocol, where the rules are set and cannot be changed on a whim to benefit the few at the expense of the many.
So, the next time someone tells you BTC is the future, laugh. Laugh because the real future isn’t in skyrocketing fees and elitist nonsense. The real future is in a system that does what money is supposed to do: enable trade, foster trust, and get out of the bloody way. That’s Bitcoin. That’s digital cash. And that’s the revolution worth fighting for.
1/4
CSW
Jan 10, 2025
https://t.me/S_Tominaga/2482
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