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depends on how you define winning. 2025 was the first year I got paid in bitcoin by an employer. I use lightning daily. I can send sats to anyone on earth who generates an address. I can buy a few more things with bitcoin than I could in years past. I'm paying for a few things regularly with sats now.
I'd be disingenuous if I said the dollar exchange rate didn't matter at all, but it matters about as much as it mattered 6 months ago when it was at $120k (a price I considered unbelievably low for 100 million magical internet money units).
2025 was the first year I got paid in bitcoin by an employer.
how did it feel having a post-payment debasement?
it hasn't taken the jelly out of my donut. still feeling pretty chuffed about the deal.
had to look up the word "chuffed" LOL!
I also learned "conniption" today. English is stupid.
how did you go to Oxford and not know "conniption"? Seems like a perfectly common word used by the English gentleman/gentlelady
I grew up like a peasant in the barbaric reaches of American suburbia...and still heard "conniption fit" here and there.
It must be one of the worst languages on Earth.
2025 was the first year I got paid in bitcoin by an employer
Are you talking about SN?
Sometimes I feel like SN is the only place people who use bitcoin as a MOE congregate.
There is a lot going on outside of internet...
No. I was working for a wallet in the early part of 2025.
Agreed. Purchasing power is telling you that we are not winning.
This seems to tell the entire story of what people have decided is valuable to them:
Marketcap added in the last 5 years
Gold: +$22.5 trillion
Silver: +$4.9 trillion
Bitcoin: +$1.1 trillion
Seems silly to wait for them to do it... just look at price as validation of the idea/thesis. We are not winning