I expected Bitcoin to change how I think about money.I expected Bitcoin to change how I think about money.
I didn’t expect it to change how I think about trust.
Once you hold your own keys, you realize how many everyday systems quietly depend on someone else behaving correctly banks, apps, even “balances” on a screen.
Bitcoin doesn’t remove trust entirely, but it makes it explicit and optional. That shift alone feels bigger than the price, the tech, or the headlines.
Did anyone else notice that change only after actually using it?
I remember the first times using Bitcoin it feeling very weird.
It quickly changes from weird to great when you realise you are now free.
Our sense and understanding of money being deeply ingrained through our lives and then Bitcoin presents a very different experience.
I think this is what makes most people reluctant to accept bitcoin - simply because their concept of money is so deeply embedded and the transition to Bitcoin feels too disruptive.
Fiat money is highly dependent upon trust and faith, in bankers and government, and upon people simply not understanding how biased fiat money is in favour of bankers and governments.
Most people are brainwashed captives to the fiat debt slavery bankers cartel that owns their government.
Could it be that the resistance isn’t really about Bitcoin at all but about how scary it is to take responsibility for your own money?
If you’ve spent your whole life trusting institutions by default doesn’t real financial self custody feel less like freedom at first and more like risk?
I remember thinking “why is this so hard?” at the start only later do you realize it’s because it’s way different from what your mindset is used to. I actually miss those days
I completely agree, bitcoin awakens us from the systematic illusion of money. Once you study it and study the money that exists today, you realize that what we knew as money was a lie, a lie that is entirely sustained by third parties. Bitcoin eliminates all that, and you see that price is only a secondary factor (without denying that its appreciation is extremely important), but leaving price aside, bitcoin fulfills the most important functions. It legitimizes your property (your SATS are truly yours, as long as you keep your private keys safe), works without third-party permission (you don't need third-party approval to use or move it), and even eliminates visibility into what you have or don't have (the numbers in a bank account are totally controlled and monitored by other people, UTXOs are yours, and others have no way of knowing they are yours) and, more importantly, it eliminates the risk or limitations of fleeing to other countries with your wealth under your arm or in your head (to take your money out of the bank, you must justify why you are doing so, and if you want to take it to another country, you need approvals and must wait for them to be authorized). With Bitcoin, you are truly free with your wealth.
It’s that moment when you realize money was never really yours before.Bitcoin makes ownership, permission, and control explicit and once you see that, price almost feels secondary.
Well said, I completely agree.
That's great to hear
The fee of paying an invoice at OKX is about 1000 satoshis so you need coinos because if you pay directly with OKX you pay 1299 satoshis for an invoice of 299 satoshis. Since then you need to refill Coinos with 5000 satoshis (their minimum is 2000 satoshis but it will be 50 % fee) then I exchange from 5000 satoshis, refill coinos with 4000 satoshis, pay for invoice and redo process later.
It’s frustrating how something meant to be simple turns into constant micromanaging just to not overpay, the fees quietly dictate your behavior more than the payment itself.
It’s uncomfortable at first because you’re used to outsourcing responsibility. But once you’ve felt that weight, you start seeing how fragile a lot of everyday systems actually are.
You can see how much we were deceived in a lose-lose game with worthless chips.
The good thing is that you never get used to it, and the responsibility keeps you alert to protect and manage your money.
It sounds like someone who’s woken up to the system and can’t unsee it anymore
Once you see the chips are worthless, how do you ever go back to playing the same game?
You don’t
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I guess it will get better eventually
I remember those first few transfers. It felt like a high-stakes wire transfer... the stress and anxiety of having the responsibility to get it right. And then waiting for the transfer to go through, even though it was just a few minutes, felt like a lifetime. It takes some getting used to, but once you move to Lightning, that weight lifts and it feels much easier.
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Keep educating people.
Exactly. You don’t arrive thinking revolution you arrive curious, maybe even skeptical. But actually using it forces you to confront how much trust you’ve been outsourcing without noticing that realization is productive because it changes how you question systems not just money. Education helps, but experience is what really flips the switch.
It’s true that our perception of money is more than just numbers on a screen or paper in our wallets it is a deeply conditioned belief system that gets formed over decades. Bitcoin challenges that conditioning because it is not issued or controlled by any central authority and because it operates on rules that are transparent and immune to manipulation in the way fiat currency is.
One of the reasons adoption is slow is that people rarely question the underlying mechanics of the money they use every day. Fiat has become so normalised that most assume it is the only viable system. The ability of governments and central banks to expand supply without meaningful checks is often accepted without thought even though this process steadily erodes purchasing power and changes incentives across the economy.
Bitcoin flips this model. It makes monetary policy explicit and immutable and it brings the concept of scarcity back into the equation. This is unsettling for those used to the flexibility and interventionist nature of fiat but it is also liberating for those who value independence and predictability in their money.
It really messes with you once you notice how much of money is just habit and trust. Bitcoin feels uncomfortable because it forces you to question rules you were never meant to look at but that discomfort is also where the clarity comes from.