Agree with you nostr:nprofile1qqsvlrp873f0sz486re4rw9tx8l7thcpk8w9dgqavs9ctsm2e9dekhqpzemhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucmcvdhhyefwdejhgqgmwaehxw309ahx7um5wgh8xamfwdej6etwd9nk6cfwvd5qvtmd8d. 👍 Thank goodness majority buyers are still self custody individuals. I think those are some stats I saw somewhere recently. 🤔 Hopefully more "plebs" catch on and maybe we're orange pilled over the Easter break. 🧡✨😃 Maybe some of the etf buyers will do a little study as well and take custody themselves.
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I’m developing an educational platform to increase adoption and get people focused on self custody Bitcoin, and helping them transition from earning fiat and buying bitcoin to earning bitcoin, saving Bitcoin and spending Bitcoin. Because store of value and medium of exchange need to work hand in hand for Bitcoins overall success. Maybe I’ll create some modules / videos about why self custody Bitcoin is far more important than some leveraged fiat financial instrument tied to a Bitcoin treasury company
Fantastic. 👍✅
Maybe at every store that we Bitcoiners make purchases, we need to ask, "Do you take Bitcoin?".
Right now, I have only been asking if they take cash. I walk out when they don't. Perhaps we can do exactly that for bitcoin. 🧡✨ Start a movement. 😄
My husband and I are closing in on 70 and 80 and have zero family, yet we're determined to continue to self custody, no matter what. Inheritance is well taken care of too so we do get to leave a legacy for another family and generation.
I am super conscious of not sticking our heads above the parapet, for our personal safety, particularly in the next handful of years.
I'm forever grateful for you younger people who are fantastically passionate. Thank you for all you do. 🙏🤗
This is amazing, it really is. I was at the farm shop this morning and asked if they accept bitcoin. Got the typical “I’ll pass this on” response. The reality is that most people don’t understand money, when us Bitcoiners explain what’s going on they think we are crazy. This is why I have decided to create this platform, speak to the pain points so many people have. I have been in this space for over 10 years now, but largely kept quiet about Bitcoin and focused on being productive in other ways, but we are quickly closing in on a time where Bitcoin replaces fiat currencies. Throughout the last 10 years I have come to believe that Bitcoin is the one thing which can bring peace and prosperity to the world. On a regular basis I look at the news then explore how Bitcoin would solve those “news worthy” events.
Housing affordability
Declining birth rates
Wealth inequality
Cost of living crisis
Forever wars / wars in general
Mental health crisis
Obesity problem
Plus much more
Can all be solved with hard money principles where productivity and compensation align. A couple of screenshots here which show what’s happened since 1971.
You and your husband can be great advocates as you have lived through this and seen what has happened first hand. I think this alone adds a lot of weight when asking businesses if they accept Bitcoin.
Yes, agree.
Both of us have owned homes and when we met each other in 2000 we had lost those. Won't go into the long stories of how, mine was mainly due being financially illiterate and going to a financial advisor because I thought it was the wise choice.
Hence, I now know A LOT more about money, particularly after diving into Bitcoin early 2021.
Though because we rent at our age it's more challenging to have friends, who never experimented with their own lives and went the safe route of mortgages and same jobs, etc., to believe what we say. Strangers are ok with what we share because they assume we are home owners. Being a home owner in older years seems to bring credibility with most.
Yet I believe that those who have fallen and climbed their way out again have greater credibility. We know the pitfalls and we're empathetic to those who are in financial trouble.
Living through the 60s/70s onward was a bit like frog in warm water. Hadn't kept an eye on financial markets because if you had a secure job you could easily make strange moves and always get back up in no time.
Doing that after the year 2001 or 2008 means you financially could easily destroy yourself when trying the same stunts. 🫣😆
As for after 2020, I can fully relate to young lives who try to begin from scratch. It is heartbreaking to see this happening to young lives. 💔❤️🩹