Time preference is about immediate vs deferred consumption. Bitcoin is not a consumer good. Ergo - hoarding bitcoin is low time preference.

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Bitcoin in your wallet **is** a present good whose utility you are consuming right now: its liquidity, its speculative entertainment value, its peace of mind against uncertainty. The economic distinction isn't between "consumer goods" and "non-consumer goods" but between hoarding (consuming the present utility of holding) and investment (exchanging present goods for future goods plus interest), and only the latter expresses time preference in the technical sense.

I just read your article and now I have to rethink my position, damn you. I think you might be right.

Mission accomplished!

What is especially convincing to me is the interest rate argument - if I'm unwilling to lend my bitcoin for any price, I'm effectively demanding an infinite interest rate.

Exactly.