“Don’t ever spend your bitcoin, just HODL” culture is really annoying. We’re trying to build a money, y’all, not a shiny rock you buy and stare at on a shelf!

Sure, most of us don’t have a ton of reason to spend bitcoin, but don’t shit on people who spend it! I guess I don’t have to tell nostriches this much cause y’all love the zaps.

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Spend as much Bitcoin as possible imo.

Just make sure to generate a surplus always in Bitcoin.

Taking coins off exchanges and distributing it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling

Agreed. Although it is fun to stack, it’s also fun to spend

High regards

And when your bank gets mad at you for trying to pay a merchant in a foreign country or your PayPal account gets shut down again, contact the merchant and ask to pay in bitcoin! That’s why its there!

Speaking of which, need to borrow someone’s PayPal account to pay a company for RMA shipping… 🤦‍♂️

You can have them send a request to your email and you can pay with a card without an account

speaking of which I’m trying to zap your note and it’s not working. I can zap others in this thread but not you

Replace the word bitcoin with money and see if it still makes sense anyone is saying

This my typical reply. Any money spent could have always been used to buy and hodl bitcoin. The "never spend bitcoin" mantra stems from a misunderstanding of what money is.

Either way, I'd prefer it if no one tried to tell me what to do with my money unless I ask. Offer me something of greater value than bitcoin and I might part with some. Hasn't happened yet. Still use fiat for that.

Spend ♻️

Personally, I really like spending Bitcoin, especially with lightning and I try to use it everywhere I can.

It's about not wasting money in consumption goods and not needed stuff! Short time preference!

But I have to admit: It happened that I bought stuff only because I could pay with Bitcoin. Which is some kind of stupid, I know. But it's so fun being my own bank, using my own lightning node!

I always had a feeling that those who shit on people that encourage usage are actually big blockers that are trolling and try to cause bitcoin look bad.

HODLers don't understand "money"

It's the reason why I opened an account on https://www.xapobank.com/. So I can spend dollar or bitcoin and receive cashback and interest in sats.

Both camps projecting their personal preferences is perfectly ok. Savers remind spenders they should save. Spenders remind savers we should build a bitcoin circular economy.

Time will fix this.

Yup. We are in the "want" phase, everyone has a opinion. Developing countries are ahead because they are in the "need" phase already.

Do as you please 👍

i spend bitcoin every damn day! 😝

Followed 🫂 and zapped ⚡

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Id love to spend more but the fact that every purchase using btc is a taxable event in canada makes me just hodl forever. Not worth the headache atm :/

I literally just did my first zap for this

SPENDL > HODL

Spend

Pay

Exchange

Note

Donate

Lavish

True. But the HODL meme is meant against all the panic sellers in the bear market. It is/was not about not spending them. Nowadays this HODL meme often gets misunderstood.

Like.. don't sell your worhful BTC for Fiat shit coins. HODL or spend them.