For me?
"Fix the money, fix the world."
Yes, you are all wrong.
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211 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 19h
I HATE that saying... (except when applied to be who go on anti-BTC diatribes, like Peter Schiff)
There are so many good people out there who for many life reasons are just not ready or receptive to the idea, especially with so much shitcoin/NFT fuckery clouding the market. No you are not a better or smarter person just because you bought Bitcoin earlier, you just had the right set of friends or circumstances that allowed you to keep an open mind.
To me I feel lucky and privileged to have gotten orange pilled even relatively late in 2021 (I meet k00b in 2017 and laughed at him when he told me owned BTC 😭)
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85 sats \ 5 replies \ @crenshaw 19h
"We are so early."
...as if bitcoin is inevitable (another one I disagree with). I always read this as a rationalization for bad UX, lack of user adoption, or a lack of awareness by the general public.
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40 sats \ 2 replies \ @gmd 18h
Haha yup, people saying you can get rich HODLing 0.1 BTC are quite mistaken. Even if BTC flips gold that's just a 10x from here as a semi realistic ceiling. Still better than most stocks and holding fiat but not life changing...
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69 sats \ 1 reply \ @ZezzebbulTheMysterious 14h
Realistically, Satoshi predicted a cap of 1 BTC = $100,000,000. It’s in the units. 2.1 quadrillion 2009 dollars.
But we will go beyond this, however you and the world will have switched to Satoshi accounting by then.
0.1 will buy you multiple houses, 10M sat, compatible to having $10M 2025 dollars.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @gmd 13h
lol
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @hasherstacker 6h
Yes, we're still early. Let's keep calm. We're not in competition.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crenshaw 56m
There is no way a billion people are using bitcoin today
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70 sats \ 0 replies \ @sime 20h
It's more of an misunderstanding.
'Never sell' is 'never sell because of the price'.
Alternatively is use Bitcoin (when you need it) rather than selling Bitcoin
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810 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 17h
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61 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 21h
How about "Fix the money, fix some potentially major problems in the world"?
For me, it's "Have fun staying poor"
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113 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 20h
"everything is good for bitcoin"
I think are failure modes that result from governments being too friendly to bitcoin.
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 20h
Yeah, I agree with this one. First off it sounds delusional. Second it is not something that gives me confidence at all since its easy to become complacent if this is all you hear. I would much rather hear steel man arguments about how it could fail. When I started reading things like that and started thinking about game theories it made me far more bullish. Hearing a bunch of young men full of over-confidence say dumb things with their chests out doesn't do anything for me. I think many bitcoiners are signaling a LACK of confidence when they respond with bravado. They are like a mirror of the tradfi boomers who mock bitcoin. All talk.
It reminds me of Christians that get angry when people ask hard questions. It comes from insecurity. When you know a topic and have conviction in your beliefs you welcome hard questions. You don't fear or resent them. I wish bitcoin had better opponents. People with better arguments about how it could fail, most are really lame and it leads to over-confidence.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 21h
"There can be only one bitcoin"
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30 sats \ 4 replies \ @justin_shocknet 19h
whatever this shit is
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24 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 18h
Not gonna lie, I kinda dig this shit
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 18h
It's ok nobody's perfect
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @Solomonsatoshi 15h
People need icons and ideas to aspire to and to feel a sense of belonging.
This is why religion and governments are so universal.
Even secularists believe in their own ideologies and get a sense of collective belonging and security from such ideologies.
It is natural as humans are weak alone, but strong in groups.
Libertarian ideologs have a lot to learn about life. DNA and the reality of existence.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 12h
It's lolbertarians making this crap, Bozo
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 14h
You're wrong.
I agree with you. 😂
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1191 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 16h
Naive Libertarians who think the state is a wholly oppressive and burdensome apparatus when the truth is they would be shivering helpless wrecks without its provision of law and order, security and economic framework.
Bitcoin is important because the banks and governments have over reached their positions of trust and power and need to be returned to being subservient to citizens and free markets- fiat money is not a free market but a corrupt and rigged state imposed monopoly operated by private bankers who in turn have too much control and influence over government. Bitcoin can (hopefully) fix this.
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5 sats \ 1 reply \ @hasherstacker 7h
"Bitcoin is for everyone". It's not for everyone.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 2h
It’s only for those willing to take responsibility for their own lives and who strive to be sovereign individuals
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55 sats \ 1 reply \ @ken 13h
"The United States government doesn't understand Bitcoin"
They are the most likely authors, actually. But most bitcoiners fear this too much to have an open mind about it. Keep using SHA-256 money
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @satgoob 10h
Haven’t heard that one but I dig it
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105 sats \ 2 replies \ @senf 8h
I don't know if it's most, but 1 BTC = 1 BTC. A thing must always equal itself; it's also true that 1 USD = 1 USD, 1 Taco = 1 Taco, etc.
Anything else people put on that statement needs to be explained, and it would be better if that explanation was just said instead. You could replace 1 BTC = 1 BTC with "Bitcoin is cool" and it would work basically the same.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @teemupleb 2h
This meme helped me in the early days to not worry too much about the exchange rate against fiat “money”, develop a longer time preference and denominate my wealth and income in BTC instead.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kruw 4h
This one pisses me off the most. "X is equal to X" isn't profound or wise.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BallLightning 4h
Hm.. So "Fix the money, fix the world." Wa supposed to be literal? 🤔🤔
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jasonb 10h
“Altruism is inherently unproductive.”
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @denlillaapan 12h
Hm... Gresham's Law?
#738907
Oooh, noo! Price going down is a good thing ("cheap corn!")
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-price-action-does-matter
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @carter 18h
WWPTD?
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