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What have you STOPPED buying after you STARTED buying Bitcoin?

3215 sats \ 38 comments \ @birdeye21 28 Jun 2023 bitcoin

For me…take out food was a big one.

One of the big unexpected changes I made was starting to cook more. Now I rarely eat out, and I usually feel like shit afterwards if I do lol.

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589 sats \ 1 reply \ @cristaiji 28 Jun 2023

Video games and unnecessary tech related stuff. 😄

3 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jun 2023

Same on video games

487 sats \ 3 replies \ @nullcount 28 Jun 2023

Stopped paying rent. So many Bitcoin paid to landlords over the years! Real estate "as investment" is still a shitcoin.

But Sovereign Man owns his primary residence because he's building a multi-generational citadel. Also, most landlords would not consent to converting the property's heating system to run on ASICs exhaust. Doing the water heater next.

But now I have to pay property taxes which are used to fund public schools. Sovereign man does not approve.

2 sats \ 2 replies \ @mudbloodvonfrei 29 Jun 2023

I think property taxes are the only form of taxation that is moral. Income tax is a form of enslavement. Sales tax is suppression of freedom of expression. According to John Locke, natural resources become yours by mixing them with your labor, with the caveat that you taking possession does not preclude other people from taking possession of other resources. Since land is inherently finite, but we also want it to be held by the people who will use it most productively (as opposed to redistributing it equally), I would say a tax on it is fair, moral and just.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 8 Feb

property taxes are the rent they charge until they take your land from you.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 29 Jun 2023

At least with income tax, I can get tax credit offsets by donating to 501c3 orgs that I actually want to support. Most of my property taxes go towards supporting the local schools even tho I have never, and likely will never, use them. Furthermore, USA schools are falling behind the rest of the world. In most industries, worse performance leads to less profits to fund operation. But in this case, schools just get more funding for poor performance.

416 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 28 Jun 2023

More strategic about streaming subscriptions
Snacks and junk food
Carry out meals
Kombucha
Movie tickets

498 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 28 Jun 2023

Haircuts. I haven’t gotten a haircut in 4 years. My wife does trim it for me every 6 months or so though.

51 sats \ 1 reply \ @nkmg1c_ventures 28 Jun 2023

I give myself a buzz now, it's great. Also just like having short hair after years of messing with unruly hair

46 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 28 Jun 2023

Same @ buzz.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @byzantine 28 Jun 2023

yes cut myself since covid

424 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E 28 Jun 2023

Cigarettes \o/

286 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xtr 28 Jun 2023

Take out and snacks/junk food is a big one as I've generally been increasingly interested in improving my health after getting a much lower time preference. That's one of the most important things I got out of reading Saifedean's The Bitcoin Standard book.

35 sats \ 1 reply \ @super_testnet 28 Jun 2023

Bitcoin

I earn it now

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kriptan 3 Jul 2023 freebie

Teach how to earn bitcoin

53 sats \ 1 reply \ @SpaceHodler 28 Jun 2023

S&P 500

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @byzantine 28 Jun 2023

same here

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @mrtali 28 Jun 2023

Shitcoins

100 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 28 Jun 2023

tbh I've only spent more money and reached for more conveniences but mostly to allow myself to work more.

I came to bitcoin as a very low time preference person - eating out only once per week, not using central heating or air, shopping for clothes and furnishings at thrift stores, buying the majority of my food using coupons/sales, staying in my college town after graduating, and renting the same home I lived in during college.

My current lifestyle has ~3x more burn than it did before bitcoin.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nullcount 28 Jun 2023

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44 sats \ 0 replies \ @shyfire 28 Jun 2023

Netflix, Disney and Apple Music

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @skreep_ 28 Jun 2023

Dropped nicotine vapes

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @1GLENCoo 29 Jun 2023

Alcohol- I had my last drink on December 17, 2018 (https://archive.ph/ZJj51) Cocaine- thankfully this went away when the alcohol was removed from my lifestyle.