But then it isn't savings anymore is it? It's an investment now.

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Depends. In a leveraged investing strategy, your savings used as collateral remain your savings, but you put them at risk.

In my view, as soon as you use Bitcoin as collateral, it’s no longer the “most saleable good”, ie money, as it carries counter-party and liquidation risk, so it’s moved from savings into a quasi-investment