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"Olen töötanud uue elektroonilise sularahasüsteemi kallal, mis on täielikult võrdõiguspärane ja millel pole usaldusväärset kolmandat osapoolt."- Satoshi Nakamoto

It’s one of those perfect fall days in Colorado, and I’m sitting outside of a pub in the late afternoon. I’m meeting with a fellow bitcoiner, a man I met in Austin at the end of this summer. As the sun fell behind the mountains, the sky turned orange, setting the perfect backdrop for lively bitcoin conversation.

As we ticked down the typical list of everything we agreed on — censorship is bad, red meat is good, etc., — I made an offhand comment about wishing more businesses would accept bitcoin as payment. “Well I don’t, why would you want to part with your sats?” was the reply he tossed back. The implication, of course, is that a true Bitcoiner values satoshis more than anything else in the world. Why would you trade them for groceries, t-shirts or beer? “Haven’t you heard of Laslo Hanyecz? That fool traded 10,000 bitcoin for a couple of pizzas. I’m not repeating that mistake. Talk to me when bitcoin hits $200k, then maybe it would make sense.”

Mu uus sõber pole selle mõtteviisiga üksi. See on tunne, mida pakuvad sellised inimesed nagu Michael Saylor ja teised HODL-i kogukonnast. Nad abielluvad, "The scarcest asset in the world is Bitcoin. It’s digital gold, ""Buying bitcoin is like purchasing property in Manhattan 100 years ago”, and “Don’t sell your bitcoin!” Yet at the same time, there is an intuitive recognition that if bitcoin can’t ever be traded for a good or service, it in effect has no value, no matter what price is flashing on the BLOCKCLOCK in the office. I call this the HODLer’s dilemma.

Kuid kas see on tõesti dilemma? Kas need mantrad, nii viljakad kui nad on, on kooskõlas vaimuga Satoshi’s innovation? Does the proliferation of the Lightning Network and non-custodial mobile wallets that our parents (or children) can intuitively operate require us to evolve our understanding of Bitcoin’s value proposition? Personally, I believe the time is now to stop thinking of bitcoin as simply a store of value and begin to conceptualize it eelkõige vahetusvahendina … see salvestab ka väärtust paremini kui ükski vara maa peal. Kui te juba tähelepanu ei pööranud, on siin mõned põhjused.

Privaatsus

“Bitcoin would be convenient for people who don’t have a credit card or don’t want to use the cards they have."- Satoshi Nakamoto

Praegu on aeg alustada süsteemist väljumist. Signaal pole kunagi olnud tugevam. Tänapäeval elame maailmas, kus fiat-süsteem suudab:

credit card sales at gun stores
paypal 2500 misinformation fines
Canadian trucker protestors gofundme shutdown

Kõik see toimub täna ja see on tõenäoliselt vaid jäämäe tipp. Jaemüügisüsteemis, kus sularahatehingud muutuvad üha napimaks ja ebamugavamaks, on enamik suuri panku, krediidiagentuure ja maksesüsteeme nõustunud valitsuse nõudmistega, millel näib olevat eksistentsiaalne osalus meie käitumise kontrollimisel..

Of course, bitcoin isn’t a panacea to censorship — at least how it’s most commonly purchased and exchanged today. The Kanada rekkameeste protest showed us that a government committed to suppressing the voice of their citizens will go to almost any length to do so, and in the process taught us that licensed exchanges and chain analysis techniques can be highly effective in blacklisting addresses and even identifying donors. These vulnerabilities will need to be overcome in order to provide a more censorship-free currency-of-exchange. But by transacting in bitcoin with peers and merchants for everyday goods and services as often as possible, we incentivize others to both accept and transact in bitcoin. Through numbers alone we can render the bitcoin economy more robust, decentralized and difficult to censor. A community that values privacy will naturally choose to adopt non-custodial wallets, engage in collaborative transactions and avoid KYC exchanges. Growing and educating this community has never been more important.

Mugavus ja autonoomia

"Krüptograafilisel tõendil põhineva e-valuutaga, ilma vajaduseta usaldada kolmandast osapoolest vahendajat, võib raha olla turvaline ja tehingud lihtsad. "- Satoshi Nakamoto

A common counter-argument to transacting in bitcoin is that it’s either too complicated or too slow compared with swiping a credit card. This is simply no longer true. Today, any beginner-level Bitcoiner can download Muun Wallet and within minutes send Lightning invoices to clients for payment via QR Code. Coinkite has an NFC device that allows users to sign for transactions with a tap of their card. There are more examples, and many more to come. The beauty of these solutions is that they are fully non-custodial, i.e., there is no central third party that controls your coins. The software is merely enabling transactions to be broadcast to the network. Lightning transactions clear instantaneously, with fees an order of magnitude lower than Visa or Mastercard’s traditional 2–3%. (For example, it recently cost me about $.60 in fees to send the equivalent of $700 USD to Wrichi rantšod eelmisel nädalal veiseliha jaoks. Kui oleksin Visat kasutanud, oleks sama tehing kaupmehele maksnud umbes 20 dollarit.)

In addition, these transactions promote autonomy on both sides. Lightning transactions, like everything else backed by Bitcoin’s proof-of-work, occur without counterparty risk. Removed from the equation is the risk that a consumer won’t pay his bill, dispute a charge, not have enough money in his account or file for bankruptcy down the road. All of this risk manifests as transactional inefficiency, and its costs are directly or indirectly absorbed by merchants and consumers. A trustless system like bitcoin is thus more efficient, reducing risk for merchants, and ultimately rendering goods and services less expensive for responsible consumers.

“Olen kindel, et 20 aasta pärast on tehingumaht kas väga suur või üldse mitte."- Satoshi Nakamoto

We would do well to think of all of our transactions in terms of bitcoin. When money is truly a store of value, we take a measured approach to spending and account for the potential increase in value that money may have in the future. This is logical, and applies whether you’re spending sats or dollars. The website bitcoinorshit.com drives this point home quite bluntly.

Seal on ka lugu Laszlo Hanyecz, who in 2010, famously purchased two pizzas for 10,000 BTC. In effect, Laszlo paid a couple of billion U.S. dollars for pizza, if we take into consideration BTC’s market value over a decade later. It surprises me though, when Bitcoiners jump on Laszlo for being economically naive, and use this example to support their position that bitcoin should never be spent. The simple truth is that everyone who bought pizza in 2010 effectively spent thousands of bitcoin on it. The only way to avoid this would be to eat something less expensive or go hungry. The fact is, every fiat transaction we make is a direct trade off for potentially increasing our stack. Once we understand this, the public controversy over spending bitcoin on products or services is fundamentally dead.

Valdav enamus meist peab tänapäeva ühiskonnas ellujäämiseks vahetama rahalist energiat kaupade ja teenuste vastu. Ainus vaidlus, mis jääb, on mis tooted või teenused on ülimuslikud võimalusele soetada rohkem sat. See on otsus, mis on igaühe jaoks individuaalne ja ainulaadne. Vastust tuleks mõelda iseseisvalt ja sõltumata sellest, kas raha kulutatakse satides, dollarites või jeenides – see on ainult rahaline energia salvestatud - see, mis üle jääb – see on asjakohane, kui tegemist on HODLeri dilemmaga.

We are all likely to save more BTC if we begin transacting more in BTC. For one thing, when we deal in a sound money that is a proven store-of-value, we’re more apt to be discerning in our purchases. Sure, we really want the new iPhone, but is it worth 5 million sats if you expect a sat to be worth a penny someday? We might decide to wait another year before we upgrade and retain those sats for the future. On the other hand we all need food, shelter and clothing. If I have a choice between buying my meat from Costco with my Visa card, or buying direct from a rancher who accepts bitcoin, why wouldn’t I choose the latter?

Today, the number of merchants that accept bitcoin is relatively small, though growing steadily. As bitcoiners begin to understand that their “spend dollars, save sats,” theory may be counterproductive, greater numbers will begin to seek goods from merchants that accept bitcoin for payment. This spike in demand will drive merchant adoption, potentially shifting the timeline for a bitcoin economy significantly to the left.

Rohkem vahetust võrdub rohkem väärtust

“Kasutajate arvu kasvades väärtus mündi kohta kasvab. Sellel on potentsiaal positiivse tagasiside loomiseks; kasutajate kasvades tõuseb väärtus, mis võiks meelitada rohkem kasutajaid kasvavat väärtust kasutama. " - Satoshi Nakamoto

This is where we sit today. There’s a growing number of speculators and bitcoin enthusiasts who have bought into the idea that Bitcoin is a bona fide store of value. This community further believes that the asset’s scarcity will inevitably lend to a supply squeeze that will cause the price to rocket upwards. Sure, it’s possible that this could happen through the mere act of HODLing, but as Satoshi Nakamoto points out, the value goes up when the numbers of Kasutajad go up. Does buying and holding an asset qualify as use? If the brilliance behind bitcoin is enabling peer-to-peer transactions without a third-party middleman, are we really leveraging that capability by exclusively stacking and not spending?

I believe that bitcoin needs to become a true medium of exchange in order for it to fully realize its potential as a store of value. Since value is not derived from scarcity alone — demand is fundamental to bitcoin’s price. If bitcoin’s kasulikkus becomes the driving force for its demand, it is at this moment that its true potential as a store of value will be realized. Today’s economic and political backdrop might just be the motivation we all need. But until bitcoin becomes an essential part of our daily economic activity, it is apt to be valued alongside other speculative assets, and subject to the whims of the same fiat system it was meant to supplant.

See on külalise postitus Scott Worden. Avaldatud arvamused on täielikult nende omad ja ei pruugi kajastada BTC Inc või Bitcoin Magazine'i arvamusi.

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