🏃♂️ Wednesday morning run done.
💡 Yesterday we hosted a Bitcoin meetup at Hotel Aurora. More than 15 of us showed up, and a great atmosphere with deep conversations developed. At the beginning everyone introduced themselves: where they came from, what they do, and how they relate to Bitcoin or the digital world.
📉 At times like this, you almost always hear the same line:
“I have a bit of Bitcoin, a bit of Ethereum, and some play money in stocks.”
And that’s completely understandable. Trading, however, is not for everyone. The statistics are ruthless: roughly 1% manage to remain profitable in the long run – and even they don’t make fortunes, just slightly more than what they put in.
💸 The real problem isn’t trading.
It’s that over the past 30–40 years, every bit of money you earned had to be set aside, otherwise it melted away. Under the mattress, in a safe, in a bank account – it didn’t matter. In Hungary, real inflation is around ~8–9% per year; even in dollars it’s 6–7%. This isn’t incompetence – it’s how the fiat monetary system works.
🏠 That’s why people fled into real estate.
Property is hard to produce, it’s needed, and it preserves value. But if you bought it with a loan, interest ate up the returns. Government bonds? They typically pay below inflation. So you end up working twice for your money:
– once to earn it
– and again just to preserve its value
₿ This is where Bitcoin comes in.
Not because it’s “cool,” but because it can’t be inflated away. Its inflation is known in advance, currently ~0.7%, and it halves every four years. Not politicians decide this – the code does. Neither you nor I can change that.
🧓 Think about it:
Could you convince your grandmother to remove a line from the Ten Commandments because it would be “more practical”? Of course not. People cling to what they believe in. And today, hundreds of millions of people believe in Bitcoin’s rule set.
🌍 Money itself is not the goal.
Real well-being comes from being useful. Someone who only gains money but doesn’t know what to do with it gets lost inside. That’s why so many lottery winners fail as well.
🤖 And now AI and robotics are here.
Over the next 20 years, the value won’t be that you’re simply “present.” The value will be what you can add as a human: thinking, connection, creativity, responsibility. Robotic work will be replaced – not out of malice, but out of efficiency.
⏳ Your daily one hour matters.
What you spend today on trading, scrolling, or procrastination, you could invest in yourself: knowledge, health, self-awareness. A good AI subscription today is cheaper than a few packs of cigarettes – and in return, the world’s knowledge is right in front of you.
🎯 Invest in yourself first.
Then set aside 1–2 years of living expenses in cash. And whatever is beyond that, put it into an asset that does the work for you – the kind of work you couldn’t do efficiently even in hours.
This is not an easy path.
But this is reality.
Have a great day, take care of yourselves – and invest in yourselves.
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