For me the use-case for #Bitcoin as a MoE was planted in multiple instances:
1. Satoshi releasing Bitcoin in Jan 2009 with “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks” embedded in the genesis block. All developed countries were put through the ringer during the Great Financial Crisis, including my business.
2. Reading nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak ’s The Bitcoin Standard to understand money, what’s wrong with fiat, and Bitcoin as a world-view. This allowed me to see the full path: SoV, MoE, UoA
3. nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe has really opened my eyes to seeing everything as Bitcoin-first, including seeing the fiat system’s inflation and oppression.
4. Accepting Bitcoin/Lightning payments for my products, which is my way of getting involved with Bitcoin as MoE.
I read the book, and many more, and I am a well-read free market libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, however you want to call it, so I get it.
Still, lousy and unnecessary as a MoE for daily, common, mass use. It will never replace fiat for that, and we don't even need it to do so. As long as we use it correctly to protect our wealth or for very large transfers of value like the purchase of a house, in which case, it is equivalent to selling one piece of property to buy another.
I’m personally pushing to make sure that #Bitcoin becomes all three: SoV, MoE, UoA
Selling my products in exchange for #BTC is what I’m doing today for MoE.
UoA is likely something my grandson will see.
Right. Selling for BTC is something I'd very much like to be able to do to... Do you also spend it on buying products and services?
The only place that I can spend #BTC is for domain name on Namecheap.com.
Would love to spend on other services like Starbucks, web hosting, internet provider, utilities.
Looking forward to a circular BTC economy.
Do you have anything you’re selling?
No goods, just services, and my clients do not pay in BTC. It's actually a lot more convenient like that, actually. Receive fiat, spend fiat. If I need privacy for an expense, I have my ways.
Whatever's left at the end of the month gets converted to BTC and sent to cold storage. Fewer transactions, fewer fees, more sats stacked.
There may come a day when your clients want to pay in #BTC. Or, to get the ball rolling, you offer the option for them to do so. The cycle starts somewhere.
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