Hating on bitcoin gets boosted on Twitter because bitcoiners interact with it.
Sometimes I can’t help it either but typically when I see bitcoin FUD I think to myself, “HFSP” and then I close twitter and open Nostr.
Just finished getting grilled by border agents coming into the US. As I was walking away, I overheard one of the agents say to the other, “Did you capture all of that information?”
Feels good to be back in the land of the free. 🖕
This one is a little bit controversial- I typically prefer to use my card if a merchant or restaurant is not holding the bitcoin but I wanted to give this service a try.
Bitcoin payments are becoming mainstream by the day and 3rd party platforms are enabling us to hold less and less fiat.
In the US, Square just announced bitcoin payments will be integrated into their POS system, which means accepting bitcoin as payment doesn’t require any technical ability or custody.
Whether it’s good or bad that bitcoin adoption is happening from the top down is up for debate, but certainly we are living through a massive transition in how the financial system functions.
In the last 2 years bitcoin has taken me all over the world. Leaving Prague today feeling grateful to be part of this network!
@alo.in.motion is becoming a bitcoiner 👌
If a merchant or business accepts bitcoin it’s in your economic interest to pay in sats.
For one, the price of bitcoin has far less potential if it ends up like gold- captured and centralized.
Not to mention you have far less freedom if there’s a bank or regulator between your money and the goods and services you want to acquire.
Bitcoin was a medium of exchange before it was a store of value. What bitcoin is gets decided at the individual level.
The hardest days for bitcoiners are still ahead. We have not won.
That being said I am incredibly optimistic about the future. Even if the evidence supports being black pilled, I refuse to accept it.
Spending time around bitcoiners in real life, the optimism is contagious. It seems to be the opposite online.
Bitcoin’s returns are not just monetary.
It opens your mind.
It gives you time to reflect and ask the deeper questions about life.
It connects you with optimistic humans.
It leads you to new rabbit holes.
It frees you from the silent theft of inflation.
It lets you live the life you were meant to live.
At the end of the day bitcoin is just a tool, it’s what you do with it that matters.
We are all satoshi ⚡️