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The real prophet Muhhammed who invented islam aka ... | 8 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 The reason you sell Bitcoin is because you need something that you cannot buy with Bitcoin. Would I rather buy everything in my life with Bitcoin, 100% but I cannot. And there are plenty of things I need still
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TheGuySwann | 8 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Then you’ve simply used the dollar as your payment network. But that’s not relevant to the “sell it to hold more dollars” argument.

Again, if you just want to use the value for your life, by all means, that’s the purpose of money. Granted, one should understand the trade off of selling a money while it’s being monetized and what that will cost over a long time frame.