Do your best not to tell anyone how well you're doing off Bitcoin, even family Your cousin might go to some party and be like 'yeah my cousin is huge into Bitcoin!' not realizing how it endangers you Probably safer to talk about as a nym on nostr than with friends and family in real life tbh

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Some crypto-fluencer got killed in Montreal earlier this fall. Be humble.
Stories of ship wreckages; rekts and pwns, could help ashore the targeting. Otherwise go bet all in and be the satoshi of your neighborhood 🔥.
I say this all the time shut the fuck up IRL about your stack, you never know who is listening will put a gun to your head or a gun to your loved one’s head and demand you send them bitcoin. This danger grows every cycle shut the fuck up no one wants to hear about how much money you made especially if you aren’t giving them any of it
The mentally ill leftist wont care that they can’t beat your keys out of you. They don’t have to win, you just have to lose.
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frphank 1 year ago
How can you possibly do well on Bitcoin? Those that bought 1BTC at $90k today now have $90k less than they had yesterday. That's not "doing well".
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₿illy 1 year ago
Same could be said of bitcoin meetups too
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Buckleys 1 year ago
This is tough when you also try to advocate for it. Just orange pilling can become dangerous. If you run a podcast, YouTube channel, Btc business, the risk grows.
Be like “my bitcoin? Don’t even ask. Okay, but… you ever heard of nostr? Yeah, f*ing nostr. Was going on nostr and f*ing spent all my bitcoin just zapping f*ing people for f*ing memes. Zapping? Means sending bitcoin to anyone for no good reason. Was doing that all day. Every day! Till it was gone! Damn, you know how much I gave away?! Shit. It’s all gone now. Why’d you have to bring that up? Buy me a drink.”
Maybe I should tell everyone that I lost my ass on a bunch of shitcoins. That way I still get known as that guy in crypto but I’m not able to buy a lambo anytime soon.
Are you doing well with Bitcoin? I mean, you might plan to do well. But are you using it or is it just a number on a ledger? Talking about "how well you're doing" in a fiat sense is like bragging about being early to Nvidia, or Apple (both times), or MSFT. I don't even talk to my immediate family about it like that. I talk about dreams and opportunities we're going to achieve with estimates of timelines. Isn't that what we're here for?
@frphank imagine you are measuring your nephew’s height. He is a healthy young lad visibly progressing well. Your ruler uses cm or inches - whatever your preference is. All of a sudden the international society of ruler central planners decree that today’s cm/inches are 40% smaller than yesterday’s cm/inches. Did your nephew grow 40% in height overnight? This is fiat central planning in a nutshell. All economic calculation is persistently and periodically rugged.
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frphank 1 year ago
I see that fiat loses value. I can see it every day. But I can still buy "something". I can't buy anything with Bitcoin other than fiat.
Good point. Can you buy things with Nvidia shares, real estate, or silver bars? All investments are converted to currency accepted locally prior to consumption.
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frphank 1 year ago
Nvidia shares get me dividends, real estate I can use for a shop or a factory or farming, silver can be turned into jewelry, cutlery, electronic things and a thousand other uses.
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azz 1 year ago
It is apparently 🤣 Stockholm syndrome
You're confusing "use" and "value". bitcoin might have no use, but it has value. And if it has value, it can be used as investment. But you're still wrong about "use", many activist groups could not have survived without bitcoin after they had their bank accounts closed by the states they were protesting against. Wikileaks is a prime example. And that's just the most obvious use.
> If it has no use, it has no value. That's just a false premise... All your arguments are simply based in a false premise.
Sure. Happy to talk about that. Before we do that do you agree all your investments must be converted to your local fiat currency (I presume you are not in @Bitcoin Jungle, Btc Ekasi, or a similar village/town)?