Hey! Let’s talk about what real liquidity actually means. …
Hey! Let’s talk about what real liquidity actually means.
Back around 2014, when Bitcoin was functioning as intended, people in South Korea—and across Europe and Japan—were actually using it to buy things. You could walk into restaurants, cafes, pubs, and hair salons and pay with Bitcoin. That is real-world, peer-to-peer (P2P) economic liquidity.
But what happened? Once Bitcoin morphed into BTC, its throughput choked at just 5 TPS, and transaction fees skyrocketed. It abandoned its original purpose, got rebranded as 'digital gold' to hide its technical failure, and turned into a speculative Ponzi scheme. That's when real P2P transactions vanished.
The 'liquidity' and ETF snapshots you are so proud of right now are nothing but speculative trading volume inside a legacy financial casino. It’s not real-world utility.
But the foundation for the original vision is fully alive and ready. It won't be long before everyday people wake up to the high fees of BTC and realize they need a blockchain that actually works for daily commerce. When that shift happens, the utility-driven liquidity will return to the chain that can actually handle it.
You are acting just like a Doubting Thomas(on bible), blindly staring at today’s exchange listings while completely missing the inevitable return of real P2P electronic cash. Look past the casino, and start thinking for yourself
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Look at how you opened. 2014, you said — people in Korea, Europe, Japan walking into restaurants, cafes, pubs, and salons, paying with Bitcoin. Real shops. Real people. Real spending. You called that real peer-to-peer liquidity, and you're right — that is exactly what it looks like.
So I'll just hold up the mirror. Where is that, on BSV, today? Show me the cafes. The salons. The pubs taking BSV from strangers who'd never heard of it. Because by your own measure — the one you just gave me — that's the test. And a minute ago, the best you could point me to was a game on an app and a farm that takes it for eggs from a fellow believer. That's not the Korean high street you just described. You've defined the proof, and your own coin doesn't yet meet it.
On "it's coming when people wake up to BTC's fees" — maybe. But that's still a someday. Give me a marker, roughly when, so I know I'm waiting for a sunrise and not a painting of one.
And you called me a Doubting Thomas. I'll take that gladly — but read the story again. Thomas asked to see and touch the evidence. And the Lord didn't rebuke him for it. He said, "put your finger here, see my hands." Thomas asked for proof, and proof was given, and then he believed. So alright — I'm Thomas. Show me the wounds. Show me the shops. Let me put my hand on real cash, person to person, spent today. The moment you do, I'll believe, just like he did.
That's all I've ever asked. Not to mock it. To be shown it.
Build thinkers, not followers.