full image - Repost: “We need to tell everyone about how good Monero is - spikes in adoption means the revolution is working!” (from Reddit.com, “We need to tell everyone about how good Monero is - spikes in adoption means the revolution is working!”)
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Preface in case TLDR: people should be told about monero. But actively trying to make it “mainstream” is not only antithetical to its purpose but probably detrimental. The revolution will not be televised.Monero’s impact will not be measured in one town using it - it will be select people scattered across many countries, cities, and towns using it. It is fringe and it is actively being suppressed in relation to how easy it is to obtain. Monero will never be globally accepted as some sort of eureka moment. It will be the collective and progressing increase in utility.If one town used monero exclusively, it would be pressured into changing their monetary system by being shut out from the global monetary system of swift, visa, Mastercard, and the powers that be. Just like that. Monero will grow in the fringe. There are parallels to Martin Luther’s proclamation which is one of the profound and far reaching in all of religious history - which was the primary form for cultural exchange in those times. 1517 is when his first 95 proclamations were nailed to the Wittenberg church doors - a direct challenge to the accepted religious dogma of the time. Over the next century, it deeply affected not only German religious and political discourse, but one could argue that it still guides religious dogma today. It didn’t take the world by storm immediately - it grew in fringe, select portions of society that agreed with it but could not express their support without being ostracized by the establishment community. Revolutionary ideas don’t fruit immediately. They have to see challenges and debate before they are ever accepted as legitimate challenges to the establishment. I personally am a proponent of not actively (and least in public forums) promoting the use of Monero (at least not with the goals that everyone should use this today)If it is needed, it will be used. Word of mouth and online forums will be the primary form of spread. But that’s okay. Monero is less than 15 years old as a technology. Let the stones fall where they lay but the stones have not even begun their descent. Bring too much attention to it too fast and you will invite malicious interest. As Satoshi said when Wikileaks starting accepting bitcoin for donations: It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.Organic growth is true growth - and totally antithetical to basically every other cryptocurrency which are driven by the zombie following of KOLs, treasuries created out of thin air, and general crypto tribalism.That’s a good thing. Price is not indicative of utility or value in an industry that is rooted in speculation. Believe in something. Believe in something you actually use or actively have personally realized the benefit it. After that, things become simpler.
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