Bitcoin is amazing and creates a world of truth and abundance that anyone can decide to join. But once you cross to the bitcoin world, living on a bitcoin standard and so on, you realize that there's nothing better to do with your time and energy than to convert your work into bitcoin and wait.

The depressing part is that there is no investment or entrepreneur opportunity that has a better rewards to risk ratio compared to just HODLing. One could say that bitcoin-based entrepreneurship still makes sense in that case, but currently in such an early stage of bitcoin adoption, the main problems to be solved are related to turning fiat into bitcoin - which are usually pretty tricky and risky from a regulatory point of view.

And there are already very good solutions for those. And also for self-hosted nodes, self custody, etc. But still the biggest problem is adoption.

Are there ways to make orange pilling profitable? Then there's bitcoin privacy, which has solutions that could be made more user friendly but with huge risks of going to jail. And same goes for real freedom money enabled businesses like silk road or paid "piracy".

So it's a bit sad to realize that the best move is probably to keep a good paying tech day job and just stack hard. But it sucks that there aren't logical options of "investing" your bitcoin, as there should be once adoption settles and just grows with deflation.

Isn't Bitcoin a bit depressing? Hear me out. The very success of understanding Bitcoin's superiority creates its own constraint - knowing that the optimal strategy is simply to hold makes everything else feel suboptimal. We're in this strange interim period where the best thing to do is... wait.