Oddbean new post about login | logout Nah. This is the same sophistry Osama Bin Laden used, FYI.
i do prefer to not hold depreciating currency units though, i literally don't even hold any in this form except briefly such as because my bank requires me to exchange my bitcoin to dollars to do a SWIFT transfer (once a month, rent payment) but everywhere else I use it on-demand, i don't exchange it for any other reason and i don't keep my bitcoin with my bank as much as possible either i don't think it's about enjoining with the parties issuing the token so much as the fact that they depend on SOMEONE holding some amount of it so they can rob them of their purchasing power to fund their mass murder so, yeah, to some extent it's kinda true, if you save fiat, you are helping kill brown people
need to be really clear about this the same, as in, central bank scrip supports mass murder, applies to shitcoins holding shitcoin currency supports rugging people the difference between the two is a matter of degree, not of quality nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqnyqqft6tz9g9pyaqjvp0s4a4tvcfvj6gkke7mddvmj86w68uwe0qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcprpmhxue69uhkv6tvw3jhytnwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqswuzjjn8rlwp73xrzyxvh708mxj4n09cq8vr4f7vhhxmlgrkc7gps7ema33
Saving fiat isn't a political statement, it's the default behavior; saving in btc takes extra education and action. Just because saving in BTC is anti-war doesn't mean not doing that is pro-war.
i disagree saving in fiat is stupid
I agree, but it is the default behavior
If something is a default behavior, it does not make it the right behaviour. Also it does not make it political or non-political. If something is default it does not describe the behaviour itself.
it's default because it is analogous to something else money is a bit like fat, you put it on in summer so you have it to burn in winter, many animals do this... think of squirrels, they are literally a verb for saving in english... how did that get to be that way? yes, because they collect stuff so when teh supply is short they don't run out rapidly decaying fat would not be stacked away by people even sugar doesn't decay, in fact sugar decays slower than fat, so if it's about carbon based food energy you'd see ... idk... grain silos and stuff... default behaviour for a reason, they just switched out the thing no more tallow, now it's nasty overheated rapeseed oil to rape your winters