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by npoc 888 days ago
Yes, I use it to store my life savings/pension. It's the best asset for storing large amounts of value that mankind has ever seen - a perfectly scarce, digitally native, bearer asset, and the price fluctuations as it grows from 0 to infinity are just the market slowly figuring this out.

All other monies leak value fundamentally (through increasing supply or maintenance costs or risk or lack of liquidity etc.) whereas bitcoin's supply is hard limited by mathematics/logic, there's no maintenance costs, there's almost no risk (once you understand it) and I can exchange it directly with anyone, 24hrs, 365 days/year for hardly any cost (remember that the base layer network is optimised for large amounts of value)

It's money boiled down to it's purest, most ideal form, but to appreciate that takes 1000hrs of hours of learning both what money is, and how bitcoin works. Few people know either one, and far fewer both.