I ran into these recently on the street. I think they’re public signing devices. 
#Bitcoin is a superior form of money. I don’t think of it as an investment. An investment is made in the hopes of increasing the number of dollars you own. I don’t want dollars, dollars are a debasing currency. I want to hold hard money. So the idea of ‘selling’ BTC makes no sense. 
In Nov. of 2022 I offered to make a $2000 donation to a #Mendocino non-profit in #bitcoin . My only stipulation was that they continue to accept donations in both $s & BTC. (They declined my offer.) Today that $2000 of bitcoin is worth $8,500.
Hard money + long-term savings. 
Aha! Then gold must be backed by atoms.
What is backing #bitcoin ?
Nothing. Bitcoin is the ‘thing’ that is doing the backing just as gold is the thing.
Both are portable, durable, recognizable, divisible, fungible & scarce. Bitcoin is also transmissible.
In essence gold and BTC are money, not currency. 
Bitcoin has its own clock and keeps its own time. This is one way bitcoin protects itself from being corrupted or cheated by bad actors. Dig into the details of bitcoin time with TimeChain Calendar.
Economics 101:
A. I have apples, you have fish. We trade…maybe.
B. I have gold you have fish. We trade…definitely.
C. I have currency backed by gold…probably.
D. I have fiat currency…maybe.
E. I have Lebanese pounds…maybe not.
F. I have #bitcoin …absolutely. 
He forgot to mention #bitcoin makes a perfect local currency, but otherwise he covered all the bases.
#Mendocino
With #Bitcoin saving money makes sense again. 
Dollars are still pouring into the ETFs while the dollar exchange rate hovers close to $70K. And the issuance of Bitcoin will be cut in half next month.
“Ask yourself: Are you better off on a #bitcoin standard than you were with fiat currency?”
Is bitcoin an invention or a discovery?
When you ponder this question you have to factor in that numbers have always existed, even before humans appeared there were numbers...numbers of stars, numbers of dinosaurs, numbers of caves, numbers of stone hand axes. As bitcoin is math it has theoretically always existed. It took someone or some group (going by the name of Satoshi) to discover that it was there all along.
Between the launch of the ETFs with inflows surpassing issuance from miners, the halving in 40 days, sticky inflation and the whiff of fear about more bank failures, #bitcoin seems to be gaining mainstream attention.
Like speech, money is a form of self-expression. How individuals and societies use money says a lot about them. At the grocery store someone might be buying chips and soda. Someone else might be buying grass fed beef and organic vegetables.
When money is broken it’s similar to what Orwell said (ironically) in his novel 1984 about language: “It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." Broken money causes economic distortions in society, everything from poor nutrition to real estate inflation to forever wars. 
Bitcoin is not ‘crypto.’
It’s easy to dismiss bitcoin as ‘a token with no intrinsic value’ if you haven’t done the work to understand what money is (as opposed to currency) and what creates value/purchasing power in a monetary good.
This is the beginner’s mistake.
I haven’t been through this whole course yet but it looks pretty intriguing:
There are only about 250,000 satoshis for each person on Earth. 250,000 satoshis is worth about $175 at the moment. This is how scarce #Bitcoin is.
Popular talking points:
“Tulips!”
“Rat poison!”
“Used by criminals!”
“Boils the ocean!”
“Wastes energy!”
“Tax evasion!”
“Not real money!”
“Anarchy!”
“Blockchain, not Bitcoin!”
“Sooo volatile!” 
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