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Joe Nakamoto 1y ago

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

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stupleb 1y ago

Spend and Replace.

That said, fiat zombies, especially those in unfortunate economies, will have never heard of or have understood the concept of saving. Explaining that "if you don't spend it today, it'll buy more more tomorrow" will be a new concept for them. They're an audience where it would be acceptable to tell them to hodl only.

jimbocoin 🃏 1y ago

Everyone needs their pizza day moment. It’s part of the learning process.

Ronin 1y ago

You have to orange pill more merchants Joe! Do your magic in PT.

Reed 1y ago

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 🤦

Rydal 1y ago

It is called HODL damn it!! Not SPENDL!

Joe Nakamoto 1y ago

#SPEDN

statusquont 1y ago

curious, when in a group setting, have you ever proposed to them... "maybe someone else in this room wants to sell you something for those new sats?" maybe it helps to spark the idea of how money evolves and a circular economy emerges.

MCBitcoin 1y ago

She can zap plebs on nostr.

Louferlou 1y ago

Bitrefill and The Bitcoin Company or equivalent are the good answers in these situations