Subnostr

I’ve had more people reach out to me shaken in this cycle than even in 2022 (when Bitcoin went down 75% from $68k ATH to $16k!) saying they’re panicked, they sold, or they’re suddenly “not sure” about Bitcoin.

Some bailed into gold because they still want to stay on the hard money train. Some are convinced quantum computing is about to “break” Bitcoin. Some tell me I’m reckless for being so undiversified with my life’s savings.

I understand the fear. Drawdowns aren’t fun. They can mess with your confidence and your timeline…especially when the mood is this dark (and when your income is tied to the same asset you’re holding!).

But here’s where I’m at: Bitcoin is still the only life raft worth holding and helping other people find.

My mom gets $900 a month in Social Security. Who can live on that? That’s not a retirement plan - it’s a slow economic strangulation.

So no, I’m not in Bitcoin because it’s some thrilling get rich overnight scheme. I’m in Bitcoin because I don’t see another path that gives everyday families like mine a real shot. I didn’t get in early enough to be “set.” I’m still building. Still working. Still trying to protect the people I love in a system that keeps making life more expensive!

I haven’t lost faith….not because I’m numb to this volatility, but because the problem Bitcoin solves hasn’t gone away.

If you’re shaken right now, you’re not weak. You’re human. Just don’t confuse a bad market mood with a broken thesis.

Keep going. Zoom out. Do the work. Take care of your family. I’m doing the same. We’ve got this.

Jane's Bonds 8h ago

If you aren't trying to scheme, then why Bitcoin? Why not Litecoin, or Doge, or Ethereum. Why not QRL, ALGO, or NXS?

I think you're still hoping to "get rich" quick.

Your own mother collets $900 a month in social security, paid by a government that is supporting her; a government you wish to leverage, a government you are abandoning for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is not giving her $900 a month.

Bitcoin will give her $0.

Tell me more how this plan of yours works.

By selling yourself, your labor, your money, for a system of servitude like Bitcoin. A network that can only pay you less and less year over year, and much less than the depreciation of goods or services you'll provide.

This is why we left the "gold standard" in the first place: it's a scam that leads to fractured economies.

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Robstr 8h ago

How is the gold standard, or any hard money standard, a scam? Seriously?

Jane's Bonds 7h ago

Tell me why there isn't a single successful organization

Robstr 5h ago

Not sure what you are asking, but hard money isn’t a scam. It is what it is. You hold it for its exchange value and utility. It’s a bearer asset, so nothing scammy about it.

Jane's Bonds 7h ago

The hard pill to swallow is that any successful economy requires flexibility, without which, they fracture and dissolve.

As value becomes locked and hoarded, the subsequent economic stagnation leads to cultural revolutions.

In Bitcoin this manifests as lightning networks and hard forks.

Essentially, the money can't keep up with people's needs; they exit for a system that does.

Robstr 5h ago

Do the people exit, or the bankers?

Most revolutions have been fostered by fiat or debased money by those in charge.

Certainly flexibility is needed. But hard money - it seems - limits what governments can do without the consent of the people (through money), which I think is a good thing

Briggs 2h ago

You sound like the guy in The Matrix who just wants to eat the juicy steak.