So why are American citizens getting detained?

Or even just detained or arrested.

Actually, a hacker printed 184 billion BTC in 2010 and the chain got rolled back by Satoshi

Well, with all the Bitcoin maxis on there, more like right, far-right

Nope, because SSD/HDD tech has evolved in capacity while the costs have gone down.

You probably need to update your sources. It’s super cheap to send ETH

https://www.gasfees.io/

Huh, I was basing this on NFT gas prices since that's the part of blockchain I've always been most curious about, I didn't realize that simple ETH transfers required far less gas than things like minting and selling NFTs.

Minting and selling NFTs in general require more computation, but many smart contracts with NFTs have been gas optimized compared to 2021, sometimes requiring less approvals and transactions.

A lot of activity moved to L2s, making L1 gas cheaper, and so simple ETH and token sends are cheaper. L2s will continue to get cheaper, with the next hard fork around November and L1 gas should be even cheaper with the hard fork after the next.

Dorsey is a Bitcoin maxi through and through. He doesn’t care about stablecoins, etc

Yep. Also, censorship by validators will be impossible if FOCIL is included in 2 hard forks from now.

Using Bitcoin for payments is a tax nightmare and clunky UX.

Stablecoins are way better, albeit on more decentralized chains like Ethereum.

Like many L1s that have become Ethereum L2, so will this in time.