Bitcoin Truthbombs 2 minute reads

Bitcoin Truthbombs - 2 minute reads
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Bitcoin is financial gunpowder Read about Bitcoin is financial gunpowder

This truthbomb from Saifedean Ammous, describes how bitcoin adoption is comparable to that of tools like fire, electricity and gunpowder.

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Bitcoin is email Read about Bitcoin is email

Before email, people would write eachother letters.

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Bitcoin is a Protocol Read about Bitcoin is a Protocol

If I asked someone on the street what HTTP exactly does, I'd be impressed if they knew.

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Easy and Hard money Read about Easy and Hard money

Hardness of money is a fundamental property a money should be judged by. What does this actually mean, and how "hard" is bitcoin?

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The hare and the tortoise of crypto Read about The hare and the tortoise of crypto

The well known tale tells us about opposing mindsets. The hare who is narcissistic, showy and arrogant and the tortoise who is consistent, steadfast and humble.

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Time to call curtains on HODLing? Read about Time to call curtains on HODLing?

When you HODL, you move your stack to cold-storage and you don't think about selling. Might this strategy be damaging to bitcoin adoption?

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Fiat maximalism Read about Fiat maximalism

Fiat maximalism describes mind-control of the masses towards loyalty of government issued money. And scepticism towards alternatives.

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Bitcoin is trustless Read about Bitcoin is trustless

One of the fundamental properties of bitcoin, but what does this actually mean? and why does it matter.

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Immaculate conception Read about Immaculate conception

Immaculate conception of bitcoin describes the way the technology was created, and how the environment it was created in can never return

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Rules without rulers Read about Rules without rulers

Straight from the anarchists playbook, Rules without Rulers is perfect to describe bitcoin.

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Who is Satoshi Nakamoto Read about Who is Satoshi Nakamoto

The irresistable question is still not answered and probably never will be.

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Bitcoin will make housing affordable Read about Bitcoin will make housing affordable

Real estate being such a financialised asset is making housing unaffordable for people who need somewhere to live. Bitcoin can be the investment alternative.

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Bitcoin is exploitation resistant Read about Bitcoin is exploitation resistant

Colonialists inflating the monetary commodities of indigenous people is a time-honoured form of exploitation and plunder.

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Fiat money is glasses and bitcoin is education Read about Fiat money is glasses and bitcoin is education

Many people wear glasses for most of their waking hours. But how many times do they take them off and look at them. Not a lot, if hardly ever.

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Fiat is debt, bitcoin is truth Read about Fiat is debt, bitcoin is truth

The madness of fiat currency leads to nothing else but broken incentives that impoverish the masses

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Stay humble, stack sats Read about Stay humble, stack sats

Stay humble, stack sats describes the behaviour of low time preference bitcoiners who aren't blinded by the short term desire to capitalise, and consistently dollar cost average

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Only when the tide goes out you discover who's been swimming naked Read about Only when the tide goes out you discover who's been swimming naked

This Buffett quote gains a whole lot more meaning and relevance in the crypto space

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Time Preference Read about Time Preference

A bitcoiner with a low time preference mentality will wait patiently for the irrational height of the bull market to sell some sats