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I'd like to ask you a simple question, but the answer will require a lot of honesty on your part.
Why do you buy Bitcoin?
Be honest in your answer. No judgment on my part.
Some people will tell me that their goal is clear: to take advantage of Bitcoin's infinite appreciation in weak money to one day make a huge profit in weak money. I'm not here to judge you, it's understandable and probably concerns 95 or even 99% of Bitcoin market participants.
I'm going to ask you to think about what comes next. Bitcoin is much more than just another asset that allows you to maximize your profits in weak money.
Bitcoin is MONEY.
If you're buying Bitcoin with the Fiat philosophy of maximizing your profits in weak money, you're missing the point of what the Bitcoin revolution has to offer.
Bitcoin is not a way to get more dollars or weak money. Sorry, Michael J. Saylor ...
Bitcoin is a substitute for the U.S. dollar and all other weak money. Bitcoin offers you a superior alternative monetary system!
If you don't make the effort to understand this, you're missing out. But once you do, there's no turning back.
20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jer 16 Jan
I was tired of trying to be a TradFi VC for my family.
I'm a simple pleb. I should not have to spend hours every month researching companies, rolling the dice and gambling our family's capital to (hopefully) preserve our purchasing power and plan for the future.
Bitcoin has not only provided us with a better money to save in, but it continues to give me more time to focus on things I enjoy.
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Bitcoin offers us the two most important riches in the world: time and freedom.
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I buy bitcoin (and spend) to send signals to the market, one of the signal is "Every time I can, I prefer to use our own paths instead of their paths to transfer value".
A common example that make not sense to fiat mind person:
  • Buy btc (nokyc) with fiat, use those btc to buy a bitaxe, instead of use fiat to buy a bitaxe.
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I want my purchasing power to go the Mars and beyond, man, and I wanted it yesterday! 🌝
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Because I think I understand what it is. If everyone did, I can't imagine what it's purchasing power would be. That said it's only a matter of time.
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I buy bitcoin because I eventually want to have a corpus that can function as my savings, and possibly for my future generations.
I understand the revolutionary aspect that you described. At least I think. But in reality, in the pleb life, we are bound a lot by Fiat transactions.
Also I have a bit of a tangential question, what happens after the hard limit of total bitcoin is reached? The people who have not purchased it are left out as poor right? Or maybe I can say, still stuck in the matrix? Isn’t that a bit sad.
So this means that if bitcoin becomes the defacto standard then it would mean huge gap between the rich and poor. So how is it a superior currency?
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Just think it’s the inevitable base layer for all currency. Throughout history, money settles to whatever is most salable across time and space. For better or worse, that’s bitcoin.
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I view Bitcoin not as a purchase, but as a way to store my energy's value outside of the corrupted fiat currency system.
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I consider its benefits to be like a super power that has been given to us mortals, who had no chance in the FIAT game. For me, Bitcoin is Freedom. I don't need permissions to move, store, or transfer my money, be it little or a lot, which I earned with the fucking sweat of my ass working daily as a slave. And above all, with Bitcoin I understood that I really make sure to store value, which can be maintained or increased if you have the right patience, making my life and my goals achievable, unlike the Fiat environment where life is increasingly more expensive and of lower quality, and people don't notice it.
I buy Bitcoin to set the rules for myself, and I buy Bitcoin to one day completely free myself from state control.
I buy Bitcoin to achieve "Systematic Freedom" to dedicate myself to enjoying my time and my family and see how others maintain the system, those who did not want to or did not manage to escape from it.
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Cause i deeply hate state governments.
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I buy bitcoin to battle inflation but to also give my kids some money in the future so they can buy things they need with out having to throw in their life savings
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