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Every day I see more Bitcoiners stake their claim on one of 2 divergent paths...

3439 sats \ 23 comments \ @benwehrman 15 Nov 2023 bitcoin

Bitcoiners are generally a very optimistic bunch, myself included. And we have good reason to be; as we all know, there is a lot to be stoked about in the bright-orange future!

However, it is also important to be realistic. And I think most of us can also agree, there is likely to be a tumultuous phase as we transition from the generations-deep period of fiat/inflation into a Bitcoin-based one.

I sense the Bitcoin community as a whole understands this. And as a result, is diverging between two starkly-opposite paths.

PATH #1: Dig the heels in deeper than ever in their community.

CASE FOR:

Strengthens their community network, personal food/health routine for themselves and their family, and fosters opportunity to establish local value-4-value connections that will prove valuable in the case of shit hitting the fan.

PATH #2: Drop everything to go travel the world.

CASE FOR:

If things do get bad across the geopolitical landscape, there's a possibility that this could be the last chance many will have for a long time--if not their lifetime--to visit a wide array of countries (specifically those likely to be hit hardest by economic downturn).

What are your thoughts on these two options?

Have you chosen one yourself, and if so, why?

If neither, which group do you think will be the most happy with their decision 5 years from now?

Excited to hear your thoughts!

-BW

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1756 sats \ 1 reply \ @tip_nz 15 Nov 2023

It's not either/or for me, I'm doing both!

I spend most of the year in my home city and really enjoy hanging out with a good group of Bitcoiners, friends and family. It's a good environment to rest, build a routine and put my head down to work.

Then I spend a few weeks/months travelling to gain experience, widen my world view and spend time learning new things from new people.

It's a balance as opposed to choosing one over the other.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @benwehrman OP 15 Nov 2023

Excellent! Also what's up Tip!! Great to see you here 👊💥🎤

652 sats \ 11 replies \ @k00b 15 Nov 2023

This dichotomy does exist among outliers but I think we might just be seeing bitcoin through the trees when it's really just the forest, ie humans. I see this kind of behavior from nocoiners living consciously too. Bitcoin can accelerate people into conscious living though so perhaps this is more common among bitcoiners.

Drop everything to go travel the world.

I think this is more of an instagram/youtube mimesis than anything. There are some people that for sure get a lot out of travel but I find myself generally annoyed by it.

It's worth doing some of if only for appreciating the breadth of cultures but beyond that it seems like an expensive form of entertainment.

Dig the heels in deeper than ever in their community.

This pole exists too but it's definitely the harder of the two poles to invest in. Relationships are hard.

485 sats \ 1 reply \ @benwehrman OP 15 Nov 2023

Interesting; I see a very different pattern among most of my non-bitcoiner friends. They are all too financially stressed due to rising rent and general inflation, that they are more stuck than ever on the wage-slave hamster wheel, unable to think of anything outside of their 9-5 job, certainly not open-minded enough to take initiative on either of these paths (at least not in a long-term preparatory mindset).

And as for Bitcoiners, I'm having a hard time putting my finger on any who've been in the space for 5+ years and aren't at least leaning toward one of these poles. I've observed the majority taking path #1, as it requires less extreme life changes, and more increasing emotional investment in what you already have. Great example of what BTC Sessions is doing up in Canada right now, starting a grassroots P2P community to strengthen food + necessity connection without any third parties involved.

Bitcoin can accelerate people into conscious living

Love this 🔥 100% agree with that.

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 15 Nov 2023

You know, I realize now that I have very few non-bitcoiner friends these days. All of my non-bitcoiner friends are also various flavors of engineers and STEM people so that further skews my experience.

513 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 15 Nov 2023

Think you nailed it.

Bitcoin can accelerate people into conscious living

I know for me getting more into bitcoin was more about looking at myself and how I can improve my options in life despite the crazy world around me. My learning about the tools and how bitcoin works just accelerated what was already happening.

351 sats \ 7 replies \ @nemo 15 Nov 2023

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57 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 15 Nov 2023

8 weeks in Portugal and Spain. 6 weeks in Brazil. That's all I've got. I've been to few other places but not for more than 1 week.

I my comment is showing my introversion and ignorance, but I do think there's some pathological over-travel going on.

There's also less novelty in travel than there used to be. If you watch pre-internet foreign movies, the architecture, art, and fashions are all so different from domestic movies from the same time period. Globalization and hyper-connectedness is eroding art into something more uniform than it should be.

409 sats \ 3 replies \ @benwehrman OP 15 Nov 2023

If you watch pre-internet foreign movies, the architecture, art, and fashions are all so different from domestic movies from the same time period.

Very true point.

As an avid traveler, the one piece of nuance I would inject is that the amplitude of this "globalization effect" depends very much on the country/location.

As a whole, I've grown weary of most big cities, no matter the country, for this reason. They all basically copy each other, and most around the world trace back to copying USA in many ways.

But smaller towns and villages across the world are a breath of fresh air from this. I'm typing this from a small town on the coast of Colombia, and it is a completely different world here.

TLDR: There is still plenty of foreign adventure out there, just gotta extend your itinerary outside of the big cities/tourism magnets!

249 sats \ 2 replies \ @nemo 15 Nov 2023

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33 sats \ 0 replies \ @benwehrman OP 15 Nov 2023

Yup I'm definitely a slow traveler. At least 1 month in every place I go, unless I'm really not feeling it and want to move on (rare since even the very run-down places are a unique experience in their own)

I see so many backpackers burn themselves out living each place just a few days and bouncing to the next place. That's just pure stress in my eyes, would much rather integrate myself in the cultures I'm surrounded with on a deep level before transitioning to the next.

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45 sats \ 0 replies \ @southside263 15 Nov 2023

I’ve got a young family so I’ll wait for bitcoin adoption to arrive here 😂

anyone with the opportunity to travel should do it ⚡️

open minds x open networks >

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @social_experiment 15 Nov 2023

Path 3. None and everything of the above. Stop trying to define Bitcoiners as monolithic.

34 sats \ 0 replies \ @brandonsbytes 15 Nov 2023

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26 sats \ 0 replies \ @anon 15 Nov 2023

I don't believe in the community nonsense it always lead trying to vote to steal your shit, but I think you should do what you think is best for your own specific situation. Travel the world spend too much money in airlines that feed fiat you could have stack more Sats with that money thats a wiser idea in my opinion because you can these things later if you like or simply meet local bitcoiners instead of going those retardly expensive conferences, you asked me my take you have it.

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @Silent_Hodler 15 Nov 2023

Path 2, most definitely. The seer amount of control the EU is trying to impose on people living there makes me not want to spend any more. of my time in such place. I really want to move to some peaceful place, where people respect themselves, understand how the world works and cooperate together to make 2+5=5. Hit me up with any suggestions!

24 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 15 Nov 2023

If I were to take a path it would be Path 1, Path 2 is also I'm option but Bitcoin has a lot of solutions to break down the geopolitical scrutiny of your account.