My Mindset Shift - Is BTC The Only Trade That Makes Sense

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Hey JessHODL'rs

I've been writing here for some time now, and readers of my blog often refer to my content as financial education, and yes it is that, but not only for the readers but for myself too. My blog is also about me snapping out of the financial illiteracy we've been taught and me trying my best to break the dogmatic approach to money as a consumer and member of the 99% or so I like to claim.

In retrospect, I am more in the 1% than the 99% if we look at absolute wealth distribution, but am I wealthy enough never to work again? Not a chance, every penny I scrape together I try to put to work with that goal in mind.

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Working two jobs

In the late stage of this debt-based economy, most of us HAVE To HAVE two jobs. I am not referring to selling your time to various employees for a salary I am referring to your second job of what you need to do to protect what you earn.

Before fractional reserve banking and money multipliers with fiat, people saved, they had the capital to leverage and build lives for themselves. Their savings meant something; it gave hem a buffer to take a risk and produce new goods and services.

Now, what do we see? SME's either have to finance their business from borrowing against their home or raise funds through the gatekeepers of money.

Then we cheer when we see how this startup is raising millions but making thousands, in income and thinking this is normal, its not, its backwards business.

We've lost touch with reality, and to me, Bitcoin shows that fact, the fact that most people see a market where consumers set the price to be crazy, volatile and weird shows how sheltered we are from what a functioning economy looks like and how it works.

Consumer confidence the false flag

Have you ever wondered how strange it is when economic numbers come out, and they always look at how much people are spending as a sign of confidence? I always thought that was strange, to me, we should be looking at how many people are saving, how many people have rainy day funds, how much capital we keep from the market, so the market has to innovate or deflate to keep going.

In a savers market, ONLY innovation leads to capital extraction, so as people save, it becomes harder for companies to get it from them unless they give them something of real value.

When money is useless and losing their value, companies don't need to provide more value, just enough, and we actually create more inefficiency.

Is Bitcoin the only trade that makes sense?

As much as I talk about investment content, I don't see myself as an investor, I see myself as a frantic saver. I receive money in fiat for the work I do, and then desperately try to find a place to put it that won't see its purchasing power erode.

If you read my previous posts this week about the dangers of index funds, the insolvency unfolding and Bitcoins mainstream status, you'll start to understand where my mind is going; Bitcoin seems to be a black hole, sucking up the value left indebt-based money faster and faster.

I'm not sure if this is a false flag, but I am getting to this point where I am so bullish on BTC, that I need to check my blind spots.

I want to make sure I'm not missing something, or there's an error in my thinking, but as for now, it seems so rock solid I can't think of a single trade that would compete for what I want to achieve, and that's literally saving.

I want a safe place to save what I've earned.

Flipping the question

People often ask me at what price will I sell my Bitcoin, but what I hear is at what price would I buy dollars/fiat, the answer is no price.

I will sell BTC when I HAVE to and only for as much as I need, I only want fiat for my living expenses and while I can still support that, part of my savings will continue to drive into BTC.

Originally posted on TBM

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Frantic saver. That's a good expression. It is way better than frantic spender that's for sure😂

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It reminds me of this skit, its so simple but people still don't get it

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The principle is simple and yes, I see this too around me: people buying stuff they can't afford just to show off, only to have buyer's remorse days, months after. And a pile of debt. Credit cards to buy socks and vacations. Just complete insanity from my perspective. Why spend your time making money to pay interest for a loan you used for things which lose value... Ah.... I never try to explain this concept to people who see credit cards as a bliss. For me it is a big NO

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People buying shit they don't need with money they don't have to impress people they don't know or don't like lol. In a world of insanity, the sane one is seen as crazy. I don't see credit cards as a bad thing, but a tool. I have one, I take all my salary each month and I invest as much as I can with it and live on my credit card since you have 55 days interest-free.

This gives me almost 2 months to generate returns with my own money while living on the banks money, so I use that time to earn additional income, then square them off in full before interest kicks in.

Put your money to work, while I use the banks money lol I do play it a bit close to the chest, but it's been working for me thus far

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The need to impress people is really a burden for the mind. I think that this is the biggest worm inside one's mind.

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Yeah pretty much feel the same and given that BTC has dipped a little in the last couple of days, it's basically a sign!

BTC is the only crypto currency that most of non-crypto folk have heard of and so it is not going anywhere and the fact that it is the gateway for trading to most others cements it's position as people will always go back to it from other projects in some form.

Financial institutions are looking at it and some even have 10,000s of it despite saying it's a bad investment - should tell you all you need to know really!

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I just bought some today and man it felt good, so therapeutic, its like sticking it to everyone as soon as that BTC hits my wallet.

I also think its a fact of the momentum is on cryptos side, this isn't going to be a thing that goes away, maybe individual cryptos, yes but the overall trend remains. Yes, Myspace died out, but social media is alive and well, I see it ending up the same way.

That's why I say never watch what these people say, watch what they do with the money, what they're trying is to get suckers to stay away until they secure their positions and so they can front-run the dumb money, but I refuse to be the dumb money. I would rather risk on this trade with the potential upside then go risk it in the stock market or somewhere else.

I often talk about the dumb money but I am starting to think I've underestimated how dumb the dumb money is

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I just bought some as well! My weekly payment that I forgot I set up last week went over to Coinbase so BTC to Ledger Nano S, thanks very much! Good timing with a bit of a slump in the price from recent weeks too so that's cool!

More and more people are searching bitcoin and cryptocurrencies from Google search engines so if anything, it's gaining more interest, which is great! With 10,000+ coins or something like that (it's what it says in Blockfolio) then some, if not most, are not going to make it really!

After looking at the stock market with corona, I would say that it's as risky, if not more than BTC! The only things probably worth looking at are property and gold and/or silver. There will always be a demand for property but we're in a bit of a bubble with that at the moment due to pent up demand from lockdown. Giving it another 12 months on that front. May have another crypto bull run by then which may help to buy one!

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LOL the only problem we have is that we didn't buy more, if I didn't need to eat or groom myself you best believe id be using it to buy BTC

I love blockfolio it reminds me of all the shit coins I have in my metamask and how I'll never get to sell them because well gas fees lol

Stocks and homes will continue to go up until around 2025 at this rate, sadly as the baby boomers retire from now till 2027 they going to find out that even though their homes are worth more their cash is worthless and bonds matured at a negative return (Europeans are 80% bonds in pensions) then it all comes crashing down, ECB is buying bonds to peg that fake as yield curve while the fed pumps money into stonks since US pensions are bigger on stonks than bonds.

We're told lockdowns are saving the old people, but you're right fucking them with your monetary policy and no one sees it but okay, I'll pick up your home for pennies on the sat when this is said and done

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Haha, I'm reminded of all the horrible shit coins I bought every time I open up Blockfolio... hurts man, right in the feels!

Yeah can you imagine a world where everything is measured in sats, I kinda do it already as I have Blockfolio set to BTC and not £ but it might just be me who does this! Want a house? That's 80 BTC please

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It is nice that you set back up the principles of why we are in the Crypto Space in the first place. To correct and protect ourselves from what the central banks/politics have done with OUR money !

Great read !

@tipu curate

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Yeah, I just can't agree with anything they do, if everyone wants to be a part of stealing each others wealth for the "greater good" by all means, I respect others wanting to be a willing participant in that economy, but myself! I would like to opt-out, I don't care to vote without power, I vote with power, I vote with my money and I'm taking my money out of the hands of these individuals.

I'd rather deal with the manipulation and corruption in crypto that's sort of less influential than that happening in fiat. I know most people don't care about these things, they just want to go about their day and watch Netflix, but for me, I do care that I'm being punished by others decisions, i'd rather lose it all because I made the bad decision (if cryto fails)

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I'm only now starting to buy some BTC, nothing much but something. I am also going to purchase a few more cryptos (no idea what yet) but nothing to far from the top of the coin lists. Although I am growing more interested in crypto I still think most of the altcoins are junk and or scams.

The only plan I can think of right now is to either dollar cost ave my BTC buying or hold what I have and invest more on the dips.

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I think the US and maybe the UK would have the most time before the inflation gets really bad, for us, its a race against time and I don't have the luxury of waiting to see what goes where, I just gotta take it as it comes. Real estate as at an all-time high, so are stocks, so are bonds and the yields are so low

There's literally no other place I can think to put my money other than a business that could generate returns. I've been dollar-cost averaging since 20k down and I'm still 46% up si I do believe in it, and I wasn't timing anything I was literally just oh end of the month, buy and store lol no thinking behind it

I would stay away from alts its a bit of a wild west, I am in them because I bought them all throughout the last 3 years and I don't care about any of them, I just know they will break out with BTC much faster and then I can earn more BTC that way.

I guess you gotta risk it try and get a reward, I do hope I am right for my sake, but if I'm wrong at least I still can work to cover the short fall

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46% is good, I'm probably down a slight amount like 1% or so. It's hard to tell cause I am using the Exodus wallet and that only shows the percent that the coin change. (I've not tried the desktop version yet) I guess I would need to minus out my deposits and fees from the account value to determine my gains.

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Have you tried using a portfolio app like blockfolio? Thats what I am using because my coins are all over the damn place. I know Jaxx does automated calculations for you, I've just been keeping mine in an excel sheet lol

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I'll check it out - thanks, for now I keep mine in a notebook but I should keep a digital copy too, at times my handwriting is terrible 😁

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This is as honest as it gets really. Working that 9 to 5 or running a business in the hopes of getting that fiat currency and then looking for a place where we can save it so that its value doesn't reduce or invest it and make it work for us. People are seeing the signs and reading the writings on the wall. Whether or not they do something about it is a different case.

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Absolutely, I do see people speaking about how expensive life is getting and salaries arent keeping up, but they have not clicked that they need to get out of cash, in an inflationary environment savers are losers, investors are winners. I don't want to be an investor I want to be a saver, so I get into a deflationary asset instead.

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I do agree that Bitcoin has its potential being the pioneer in crypto but the chance of multiplying our investment if we can just spot the right altcoin can be many times more but this would be based on one's judgement of potential and certain degree of luck. Crypto market is really hard to predict so we really cannot be sure if the market can keep going up. I guess you must have invested when Bitcoin was at few thousand dollars so you would still be in good profit.

!tip

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I think people will take it seriously once it’s a trillion dollar asset class so that at least gives us a 5x and then yes we can play around in the alt coin Forrest and try to make gains that way

Would j want life changing gains? Yes anyone would but I am more than happy to just get out out of cash so I can avoid inflation at this point

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