I gave someone their first #bitcoin last night.
I technically “paid” a kind young woman attending her first ever meetup for a quick interview.
She taught me the word for non custodial in Turkish is something like soğuk cüzdan.
Anyway, I sent sats and was immediately met with the question I always get:
“Great! Where can i spend it?”
She asked ever so politely but I lost my sh*t.
🤦♂️ 🤦♂️ 😤
I mean JFC.
I tried to calm myself but I ended up yelling at her:
“YOU USELESS PLONKER U DO NOT SPEND BITCOIN.
ITS CALLED HODLING, IMBECILE.”
I then vented on X to my HODL friends and HODLed really hard.
I mean seriously- do people not know how this works yet?
If you want people to adopt bitcoin you just HODL really hard and tweet harder still. https://v.nostr.build/e0G2.mp4
I have had this experience as well. It doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin, the majority of people have literally no concept of saving anything. To them spending immediately is the only thing that makes sense.
I've been working on a family friend who is 18 and I realized that I needed to teach him how and why to save money before he could figure out anything about Bitcoin.
"How can I save in Bitcoin, I don't have any money?" Kid is at Starbucks twice a day and sees 2-3 movies a week 🤦
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