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 Is anyone else stacking sats because they worry that other people might need it, later? 
 Yes, god willing, stacking 99% for my children and hopefully their children. 
 I also hope to keep it long enough, that they can inherit it. 🫂 
 I don't actually have any plans to spend it, I mostly see it as an emergency cash fund for my social net.

Like, I'm very active in my church and there are so many old people and young moms who would basically be up the creek without a paddle, if the euro crashed or the government dried up.

And I just wonder who would pay for the soup kitchens and heating bills? It's going to be people like me, right? Gold bugs and corn stackers will be the only ones with any money.... 
 Bitcoin perhaps souls be considered your life savings and fiat you’re current spending wallet and rainy day funds 
 Yes, but the fiat will increasingly be eaten up by inflation and will eventually barely cover my own family's running costs. 
 It’s different for everyone but define your ratios.
What percentage of every check goes into bitcoin end what goes to expense wallet.
Marne inflation is so high this has to be quite flexible.

Rainy day to me is a years + worth of expenses in a country where cost of living is low.
I am an expat with family in a country if I lose my job I have to leave or find another job pretty soon  
 We calculate 3 months, but it's getting harder to maintain that and we keep getting wiped out by one-off outlays. 
 I know that seems like a weird thing to be concerned about, but I already know of a few counting out euro-coins to buy groceries, so we've set up a cake café in the parish hall, once per week, so that they can get out of the house and socialize for free. They refuse to go on welfare. They'd rather literally starve.

And soon, there will be no welfare. There will just be us church ladies from the cake café. 
 We could probably cover a soup kitchen out of local donations and.volunteer labor, but people will donate more generously, if they have a personal Bitcoin reserve.

Even if I don't spend the Bitcoin, having some would make me feel calmer about spending fiat. 
 yeah, the financial catastrophe is getting real close now, that huge print has to eventually hit the market, i give it less than 5 years 
 Our local government has some cash money, but they put it all in euros and just laugh and roll their eyes, when I suggest putting at least part of it in gold or Bitcoin or even stocks.... someplace else! 
 that's basically the only reason why I stack those, ma'am 
 My grandkids grandkids grandkids grandkids grandkids will need every sat.

We're not getting out of the $35 trillion of national debt, ever.

For perspective, 1 trillion seconds ago, there was no written history. 

Bitcoin is all there is, other than slavery.

 
 Yes. I think about this often. 
 Have you ever read "When Money Dies"?

The thing that stayed in my head was that the country was full of superficially-wealthy people in nice houses with pianos and paintings, but they had no liquid assets beyond German marks and government bonds, so they tried to sell pianos for potatoes. 
 The craziest thing in that book was when folk started slaughtering farm animals thinking farmers were to blame 
 Yeah. And there was a lot of craziness, in that book. 
 Have you ever read "When Money Dies"?

The thing that stayed in my head was that the country was full of superficially-wealthy people in nice houses with pianos and paintings, but they had no liquid assets beyond German marks and government bonds, so they tried to sell pianos for potatoes. 
 The only people who could calmly purchase potatoes were the ones with precious metals, Swiss Francs, and Siemens stock papers.

I think Bitcoin is the new Franc. 
 Forgot the ones with potatoes 🧠 
 I've got potatoes, but we can't all plant potatoes. We are too many. 
 Luckily we can all stack sats 🙏 
 Yes & I think about it every day 
 Yeah, my kids