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I keep hearing the term "paper bitcoin" but what does it mean?

Bitcoiners seem to talk about it negatively but I thought bitcoin is supposed to be good so what is paper bitcoin and why is it considered bad?

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Paper bitcoin = IOU

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It has crossed my mind, but it is like saying that gold is physical bitcoin. In my opinion, ETFs and Strategy shares are already paper bitcoin and they are not good.

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It is not Bitcoin. That's all you really need to know.

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Paper bitcoin is the notion of ownership of bitcoin without exclusive and complete ownership of the keys. An example is when an app like gemini shows me I have x number of sats in my account.

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