"The best, simplest, ultimate form of collateral is something that can instantly be claimed and sold at any time when the debtor fails to make their payments. A house can take months, even years to sell. Stocks too have time restrictions, but Bitcoin doesn't."
~ The Ultimate Collateral
The Ultimate Collateral written by Martin Connor
This was an excellent piece that boils down to one killer insight: Bitcoin is the highest-quality collateral humanity has ever invented.
Most people still rank houses, stocks, gold, or cash at the top, but that’s only because nothing better existed—so they never noticed how deeply flawed all of those are.
Put the pieces together—true shared ownership via multisig, absolute digital scarcity, instant global portability, and a network with literally unmatched uptime—and Bitcoin stops looking like “digital gold.”
It’s something entirely new.
When any stranger on earth can verify it in seconds, move it in minutes, and it has a multi-decade track record of appreciating, are we still thinking too narrowly about what Bitcoin is really built for?
Bitcoin: The Ultimate Collateral│Braiins
In this book, we look at how bitcoiners and bitcoin companies can extract the most possible value out of their bitcoin, without having to sell it. ...