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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @zapsammy 21 Aug \ on: make bitcoin money again bitcoin
money has many definitions and meanings. many many books have been written about money. yet, people are still struggling to explain what it is!
if we insist on describing bitcoin as money, and we cannot accurately convey what is money, that's going to be a slow and painful orange-pilling journey. yes, it's helpful to call it money, because so many people want "money," even though they cannot describe what it is they want (and what do they really want out of life!)
bitcoin is written precisely in code, no less no more, no caveats - there are occasional forks and updates, and they are all precisely written in the public repository of open source software. commands, 1's and 0's.
1 bitcoin = 1 bitcoin
bitcoin is bitcoin
money is a psyop designed to confuse.
i like breedlove's definition: attention allocation technology. if bitcoin is money, one would translate "i want money" as "i want to allocate my attention using bitcoin technology." everything that's not bitcoin is worth less attention.
don't try to make bitcoin into money or anything (you can't - it's gonna be whatever it is, and that's enough) - simply use bitcoin and figure out what it's good for. there are many creative use cases beside capital and currency, like communication and authentication. i can't wait to discover more use cases. it is deceiving to tell people that bitcoin's #1 function forever is and always will be money.
i have a dream, that one day the concept of money will become obsolete and we will simply use bitcoin.
That's really beautifully put, awesome.
If I may... I would like to vent a little as many folks, particularly on twitter and even on Youtube, really aren't "using" bitcoin at all. I would even suggest that 'using' Bitcoin, like sending and receiving sats and sharing ideas here on SN is relatively uncommon.
Instead some people keep their sats on 'exchanges' and so they really aren't 'their' sats and they really aren't using bitcoin. Maybe tangentially as the bitcoin 'held for them' protects their purchasing power... however Bitcoin ultimately is money and is capital and is designed to flow and to facilitate life. Here on SN 'the sats flow' to facilitate communication and the sharing of ideas and that's 'using' bitcoin. Buying bitcoin on coinbase/another exchange and having it sit their for an extended period... probably isn't using it to the same degree. Your keys your coins and all that.
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thank you
stacker.news is a nice community
and an influentional one in bitcoin
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