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"Bitcoin is money" has become the only acceptable framing for many bitcoiners. If you can't imagine any other, your mind is captured.

True, it does a lot as money, and it's the best money we've ever had. But Bitcoin is what it is, and as a technology, can be used for any purpose people can use it for; can fit any narrative that realistically applies to it.

It used to be that people would think about Bitcoin from the lens of their own lives, and you'd hear all kinds of neat interpretations about it.

Nowadays it's just "money" this and "finance" that. And I believe that that is actually the least useful framing for Bitcoin. The least meaningful. The least impactful. The least powerful. If money is all you think Bitcoin is, then you're just looking at the ground floor of its potential.

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Pegah 3mo ago

🎯

Oshi (推し) 3mo ago

Bitcoin is money. Use it as such

Jay 3mo ago

Money is the war right now, and I'm glad so many people are fighting for Bitcoin in that dimension.

As such, I can use Bitcoin as money and put my focus on the next war. When Bitcoin is global money, and all our enemies our conquered, who will be the first to use Bitcoin for the next war and what will that use look like? What will be the next evolutionary pressure that advances how we use an ossified Bitcoin?

Oshi (推し) 3mo ago

Money has always been the war I think. Now it’s escalated because of the technology that we have now. Those that adopt bitcoin today will have significant edge over those that done, and especially for funding war, politics, etc. It’s going to be an interesting decade to say the least.

Jay 3mo ago

I agree with that. I just like to take it a step further, or a step back maybe, from money as a second order phenomen that exists on top of the first order phenomenon of physical watts and energy.

One of the problems we have is how to decide who owns what, who has control of what. The easy answer is to kill anyone who wants to own stuff so you can own it. But because that hampers cooperative civilization, we've learned to abstract violence into money. In short, without going into it, Bitcoin is a good money because it's a good substitute for violence. And that's the dimention I like to view it through because you can get a much broader picture of things.

Oshi (推し) 3mo ago

Here here brother.

Matt 3mo ago

I've never understood the point of view that money is the least significant aspect of life. Organized societies can't exist without it at any significant scale. Life would suck majorly. Of course it's a primary focus in a failing society with broken money. The other use cases hardly matter until we fix the foundation of humanity. I think this is why you see hardcore Bitcoiners (those living on a Bitcoin standard, not finance or NGU bois) focusing on higher level things. But the problem is assuming that other people are there yet. We are very few at this stage. Most people are unthinking slugs. The handful of others are just starting to ask what money even is. I think it's normal to see the dominant narratives centered around finance and money. It's the most useful framing *right now* because our societies have a broken foundation. We can't really ascend until enough of us fix that. But I agree that we can move on to other frames. I just expect to be lonely for a while.