Upgrade your mentality to Bitcoin as your UoA. Even if you’re fiat mining and saving what you can in sats, reduce your expenses and stack the difference. Spend and replace as needed. You’ll have more transactional freedom and you’ll dissuade yourself from overspending by default all while helping foster bitcoins circular economy and advancing MoE
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I do spend in BTC.........I don't begrudge newbies hodling for a while especially if your just starting out. My 20 year old nephew just invested his 5K of savings in the S&P500. Personal context comes into play is what I am getting at. Bitcoin spending does need to occur for the bigger picture stuff for sure.