Owning bitcoin, does not make you a bitcoiner

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What is your definition of bitcoiner?

Someone who sees Bitcoin as freedom money and as the end goal, aligned with the ethos of a permissionless, p2p universal money that frees you from the fiat control system. Not someone who buys and hodls Bitcoin in order to have more fiat.

Thank you. Your definition is similar to my definition. But if someone HODLs bitcoin (doesn’t sell) and doesn’t have that mindset/definition (like perhaps Trump and most who own bitcoin), they also help the network, and they probably consider themselves bitcoiners.

If only those people who thought like you and lived 100% on a bitcoin standard owned bitcoin, the network would be a fraction of the size it is today and much more vulnerable to an attack.

The effect on the bitcoin network is the same whether someone HODLs bitcoin and is a bitcoiner (which people have different definitions of) and someone who HODLs bitcoin and is not a bitcoiner.

What do you mean?