"You should learn a bit about Bitcoin before you make a complete fool of yourself like this."

I tend to talk to people like that about the issues of the fiat system.

Only if they are interested in having a conversation.

If they just want to argue I generally either agree with them and smile or say "I have no desire to convince you otherwise."

Disengage and say nothing. For both sides it’s unfortunately the best option. If someone is overtly hostile they’re mind is simply not open to BTC and nothing you can say will help

Who are “bitcoiners”?

"what would it look like if a network was built on the internet and it had guaranteed digital scarcity, wouldn't you think one of the early uses of that would be to hoard it while humans figured out what this new thing could be used for?"

This is the spiritual elegance of Bitcoin: it does not suppress greed—it transmutes it. It channels the drive for personal gain into the architecture of collective order. Miners compete not to dominate, but to validate. Nodes collaborate not through trust, but through mathematical proof.

This is not austerity. It is alchemy.

Greed, under Bitcoin, is refined. Tempered. Re-forged into a generative force—no longer parasitic, but harmonic.

“That’s just like your opinion man” - The Dude.

if you don’t think bitcoin solves anything, then you don’t understand the problem.