Not Everyone Who Buys Bitcoin Is a Bitcoiner

Here’s a bitter truth many will refuse to swallow: not everyone who buys Bitcoin is a Bitcoiner. In today’s fiat-sick world, the term “Bitcoin” has become a bait, something companies, influencers, speculators and institutions slap onto their brand to lure in attention, gain trust, and bait the unsuspecting into their own Bitcoin-branded fiat traps. But calling yourself a Bitcoiner just because you “own” some BTC is like calling yourself free just because you can't see the chains you're bound with. Being a Bitcoiner goes beyond just owning some sats. It means using Bitcoin as money.

Let’s take a closer look at MicroStrategy and other Bitcoin treasury companies. They buy Bitcoin, yes—but why? Is it to use Bitcoin as money, as Satoshi intended? Do they pay salaries in Bitcoin? Their play is simple: buy Bitcoin, shout about it, raise their stock value, and—at some point—dump it to sell you their fiat-pegged derivatives, their shares, or worse: their own shitcoins. In truth, Bitcoin is just a shiny wrapper they use to repackage their legacy fiat tools. It's marketing, not conviction. It's extraction, not contribution.

Satoshi Nakamoto didn’t create Bitcoin so hedge funds and corporations could “diversify their portfolios.” He created Bitcoin as a tool for monetary freedom—a peer-to-peer system of electronic cash that empowers the individual to transact without middlemen, gatekeepers, or permission. He wasn’t selling investment packages or promising 10x returns. He was solving the fiat system problem, so people could own and use money without trusting third parties.

Bitcoin is not meant to be a store of speculative value that people HODL forever while still paying for everything in fiat. It is money, and money is meant to be spent, received, earned, and saved—not just hoarded. When people treat Bitcoin as a stock or a savings bond instead of the unit of account for daily life, they dilute its very purpose. Nobody in the U.S. “hodls” dollars hoping for them to go up in value. Nobody in the EU clutches onto euros waiting for a pump. Why? Because those are used as money. And Bitcoin should be, too.

Being a Bitcoiner means rejecting fiat dependency. It means moving away from the toxic culture of financial speculation and toward real-world use: paying for groceries in sats, accepting Bitcoin for your services, tipping your barber via Lightning, and building local economies where people trade value directly. That’s what circular economies are all about—Bitcoin used as Bitcoin. No tokens. No leverage. No staking. Just earning and spending sats.

So stop the nonsense. Stop measuring your Bitcoin journey by price charts, market caps, or some influencer’s Twitter feed. Start measuring it by how often you use it, how many people you've orange-pilled, and how you help build communities that no longer depend on banks, governments, or their fiat lies.

Bitcoin is not your investment. It’s your lifeboat. Use it. Or get out of the way.