Only if you explain why you're being so difficult? You were pestering Anja with these silly questions about me 'being short' too, and I want to understand what your problem is?
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I think I had discussed this you previously...my main issue was your frequent referral to dollars as money and the implication that Bitcoin was an investment to make dollars with.
I disagree with that view, which I think was fair for me to do.
The mistake I made was assuming you were doing that because you were a trader, not a stacker. That's my bad, and for that I apologise.
The dollar is money, and it's just intellectually dishonest to say otherwise.
I don't think I've ever said Bitcoin is just an investment to make dollars with, what I would have said is 'the vast majority of people do in fact believe that'. As evidenced by their behaviours, of selling in bull markets.
Your mistake is actually thinking I am expressing my ideological view, but instead I am simply pointing out the objective facts about how the market operates.
You will find that people like you and I, that see bitcoin as money and fiat as trash, are the smallest minority of people. Most people have no fucking clue, and are indeed fiat maximisers.
Not the world we want, hut the world we live in.
I agree with you on that.
Like I said, I apologise for misjudging you and for being too toxic of a maximalist.
I don't have trouble stacking sats, but I do have trouble staying humble.
I think of the dollar as currency not money...
The difference may be semantic, but the distinction matters...a lot...to me.
You're separating MoE and SoV/UoA in this distinction. Which is by the way what id happening, the savings asset function of bonds (dollars with yeild) is being replaced by gold and Bitcoin.
Currencies are gov issuee monies which have shit SoV properties. Money is still the parent umbrella.
That's fair and fine if you are speaking to a classical economist....but when you are trying to explain these complex concepts to a broad audience, like you very often do, it is important to simplify even further. Especially if you are a Bitcoin advocate.
Crap money is not money.
Sound money is money.
I strongly believe we should move away from referring to dollars as money if only for this purpose alone.
Also there is a very strong school of thought, no less than from nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m himself, that Bitcoin must become a MoE to succeed. Resigning our fate to saylor-esque / fed / BlackRock views that the dollar will not / should not be replaced as a transactional medium is likely selling ourselves short.
Now...would you like to zap me in sats or cents?
You're going to lose people with that approach. By saying the money people literally use day to day isn't, but your internet funny money is, you've lost the audience.
This is why Austrian economics never takes off. People who pitch it ALWAYS lose the audience in the conversation.
I understand you, most people won't hear it.
Ya I suppose it's just the difference between gentle public pandering vs. more abrupt truth bombs.
Both work for different people, and most bitcoin'er types prefer the latter, as do I.