Thinking in Bitcoin
A brief reflection on the moment you stop looking at the price and start looking at time.
There’s a moment (almost imperceptible) when you stop looking at the price and start looking at time.
That instant marks the beginning of a deeper change: you stop thinking in fiat and start thinking in Bitcoin.
Thinking in Bitcoin isn’t about buying it. It’s about changing your frame of reference.
As long as we keep measuring everything in euros or dollars, we remain inside the cage.
Bitcoin demands a different mutation: learning to think in terms of time, not price.
When the euro arrived, millions kept thinking for years in their old currencies: pesetas in Spain, liras in Italy, francs in France, marks in Germany.
In markets, cafés, and TV shows, everything was translated back.
We could use the new money, but not think in it.
It wasn’t ignorance, it was resistance to losing our sense of scale.
Value needs a stable anchor, and losing it is disorienting.
The same happens with Bitcoin.
Many use it or watch it closely, but still compare every move to fiat (as if that were the natural center of value).
Yet the euro or the dollar are not neutral references; they’re mirages.
They measure reality with a ruler that others can stretch at will.
That’s why “thinking in BTC” means breaking with the old language.
It means realizing that Bitcoin doesn’t fluctuate; what fluctuates is faith in the money that measures it.
And yes, most people don’t understand Bitcoin.
But they also don’t understand the money they use every day.
They live in a system that teaches them to spend, not to comprehend.
A system that punishes saving and rewards debt.
A system that turns economic ignorance into a quiet form of obedience.
Maybe that’s why Bitcoin won’t be “mass adopted” in the traditional sense.
Not because it’s hard to use, but because it requires a mental effort few are willing to make.
It’s not enough to use it; you have to think differently.
And thinking differently hurts (it forces you to question what you took for granted: what value is, who defines it, and why you obey those rules).
But Bitcoin doesn’t need everyone to understand it.
It depends on a minority unwilling to go back.
Just as the Internet didn’t need everyone to grasp TCP/IP to change the world,
Bitcoin keeps moving forward with those who already see time through a different lens.
The real leap isn’t technological.
It’s mental.
To think in Bitcoin is to stop speaking the language of your masters and start speaking your own.
To stop translating value and start feeling it.
And once you reach that point, you no longer need to look at the price.
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🧭 Originally published in Spanish: https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgnqfk5l0lx3gxzgy9zrmqsx57js2jnpkw7sf0w2aq7swn4v80vyqunygre