<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>alberdioni8406 wrote</title><author_name>alberdioni8406 (npub1q7…pfzcf)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1q7etlfzq8e4wyks6jxgx5hgqwcsvhhvm0p5rwvf9z96jne4ms9jq3pfzcf</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>A point for discussion by BitFaced on X: &#xA;https://x.com/i/status/2071682961179566348&#xA;&#xA;&#34;Why BTC is NOT money:&#xA;&#xA;Money is a temporary placeholder for goods and services.&#xA;&#xA;But money itself cannot become the good it is supposed to represent. It has to be *transferred* to someone who already has the good, or can perform the service, in *exchange* for it.&#xA;&#xA;BTC is treated like the good, not the money.&#xA;&#xA;People don’t want to spend it. They want to “own” it, hoard it, and watch the number go up.&#xA;&#xA;But what are they owning? There are no coins. Nothing physically moves. The ledger updates. A private key (you can&#39;t own a number) grants control over an entry in a database.&#xA;&#xA;BTC is not functioning as money. It is functioning as the object being chased.&#xA;&#xA;And if people actually tried to use BTC as everyday money at global scale, it would break immediately: mempool backlog in the millions, enormous fees, and massive transaction delays.&#xA;&#xA;BTC is not money.&#xA;&#xA;People are speculating that one day someone else might use it as money.&#xA;&#xA;Yet their own behavior reveals the contradiction: they don’t use it as money. They hold it as a bet.&#xA;&#xA;BTC is not money. It is speculation masquerading as money.&#34;&#xA;</html></oembed>