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 #Bitcoin requires hope and elements of faith 
 I don't know if that's true. Though it depends which aspect of #BTC you mean. I use #bitcoin to pay for #VPN #payment and have done so for years now. I don't need faith to see its value as a fungible #currency.

Likewise, I don't need faith to see the value of the #lightning network either. It's self-evident.

The only aspect of the Bitcoin you need faith for is the store of value proposition and to be honest, I don't have that faith and actually i don't need it either.

I don't really trust any store of value. I don't trust #Gold or the dollar or even real estate. All those things are unpredictable and also irrelevant.

It's the #technology that's really important, just as it's the country that's really important with #fiat. All fiat is not equally redundant. Some are more risky than others.

I still think I'm an advocate, even though I don't care whether the price rises or falls. I actually preferred the idea it would stabilise at some point and so far I've been disappointed in that respect. 
 Technically, yes.  So does it require faith that the sun will rise tomorrow.  But I've studied astronomy and so I have a lot of data that supports that theory.

It also requires faith that the laws of physics will not change tomorrow.

Everything, if you boil it down far enough, requires faith.

Fortunately it's possible to study bitcoin deeply enough to have conviction that if the sun rises tomorrow and physics doesn't break that bitcoin will continue to thrive.