KompassFrei on Nostr: I hadn't come across Umbrel, so thanks for bringing it up. My thinking comes less ...

I hadn't come across Umbrel, so thanks for bringing it up.

My thinking comes less from a technical onboarding perspective than from Austrian economics, my work on The Measure of Value, and Santostasi's power-law thesis.

I'm wondering whether the organic growth of Bitcoin depends partly on economic incentives that lead participants to strengthen the network through their own choices, rather than on adoption numbers alone.

Self-custody and independent verification may be two different steps in that process. But I'm equally interested in whether the economic benefits become tangible enough for people to choose both voluntarily.

Perhaps the question isn't how to get every merchant to run a node, but under what conditions doing so becomes a natural extension of participating in a Bitcoin economy.