I’m not sure we are talking about the same thing. Saving bitcoin for your future generations/descendants and spending bitcoin today are not mutually exclusive activities. How would bitcoin ever become universally used/accepted for future generations if everyone today had the mindset that you shouldn’t spend meaningful amounts of it?
Bitcoin makes it possible for more people to think long term than fiat does. It is inclusive and empowering in that way. But that does not mean that people trying to earn it today do not have immediate financial obligations. An artist performing online for tips, or a merchant with an online shop, for example, would soon go out of business if everyone who supports them pays them only 1 or 2 cents of relative purchasing power, regardless of whether that payment is in sats or fiat, because the demands of their immediate financial obligations outweighs their desire to save for future generations.
By refusing to spend bitcoin in meaningful amounts, we handicap and sabotage the very system we wish to see come into place.
It is not my place to determine where you spend your money, or vice versa, although I’m sure some people may read this and think I’m just trying to tell them what to do. But if we value bitcoin, and if we value nostr as a place where a circular bitcoin economy can flourish, then we all have to be willing to pay people more than 21 sats at a time until we see significant increase in its relative purchasing power.
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