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
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.
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