Money naturally spreads: bad when your Bitcoin leaves you, good when it comes to you

Published May 11, 2025

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    00:01 Hey everyone, Bitcoin and all monies are
    00:04 constantly trying to spread. The siren
    00:07 song of everything you could possibly
    00:08 spend money on is constantly trying to
    00:11 separate you from your Bitcoin. Now,
    00:13 that’s a good thing if your if the siren
    00:17 song is being listened to by someone
    00:18 else and a bad thing if you are
    00:20 listening to that siren song. I talked
    00:22 earlier today about a friend of mine who
    00:24 sold 97 Bitcoin for $10,000. I also
    00:27 talked about someone I knew who sold who
    00:30 bought Bitcoin at $5,000 and sold it at
    00:33 $20,000. So it the the good thing about
    00:36 a money is it does spread ultimately a
    00:39 good money like Bitcoin wants to be in
    00:40 the hands of everybody. It wants to be
    00:43 of course it doesn’t have an you know a
    00:45 mind of its own or anything but the
    00:46 natural incentives are that that money
    00:48 will spread and that it will be used for
    00:50 commerce and that it will be used for
    00:51 everything. Now, you have to think about
    00:53 the good side of this as well, because
    00:55 when I was buying my first Bitcoin back
    00:58 in 2017, the bit the price was around
    01:01 $10,000. I think the average of what I
    01:04 bought in uh 2017 and 2018 was maybe
    01:08 $9,000. But what if all of the early
    01:11 adopters of Bitcoin between 2009 and
    01:14 2016 had held their Bitcoin and not been
    01:17 willing to sell any of it? Well, then I
    01:19 would be buying Bitcoin back then at
    01:21 $100,000 instead of at $10,000 or
    01:24 $9,000. What if the people today, every
    01:27 single person who held Bitcoin today,
    01:29 absolutely refused to part with it?
    01:32 Well, that means you would be buying
    01:33 Bitcoin today at a million dollar per
    01:35 coin instead of just $104,000 per coin.
    01:39 So, it’s a good thing that Bitcoin and
    01:42 all other money spreads naturally. It’s
    01:44 a good thing that money naturally wants
    01:46 to end up in the hands of everybody that
    01:49 could benefit from that money. But you
    01:51 have to understand the same incentives
    01:52 that are making people sell Bitcoin to
    01:55 you are going to kick in and encourage
    01:57 you to part with your Bitcoin in the
    01:59 future for something you want. So, it’s
    02:03 best first of all to if you have US
    02:05 dollars to spend those and save your
    02:07 Bitcoin as long as conceivably possible,
    02:10 but also to understand that when it is
    02:13 the right time for you and your family
    02:15 and you want to improve you or your
    02:17 family’s life in some way, there’s
    02:19 nothing wrong with doing that because
    02:20 that is the purpose of money. And at the
    02:22 end of the day, a lot of people improved
    02:24 their lives and the lives of their
    02:26 family with the US dollars that I gave
    02:29 them in exchange for their Bitcoin. And
    02:31 in the future, a lot of people will do
    02:33 the same. And eventually when about
    02:36 about 3% better at making everything in
    02:39 general over
    02:43 time, so in the future, Bitcoin will
    02:45 just be money. It will go up in value 3%
    02:48 per year, and everyone will use it for
    02:49 everything. And at that point, you won’t
    02:52 have to think about it as both an
    02:53 investment and a money. It will just be
    02:55 a money. Until then, hold on to it as
    02:58 long as you can. Buy as much as you can
    03:00 and understand that a thousand different
    03:02 things will try to separate you from
    03:04 your Bitcoin. And be thankful when you
    03:07 every time you buy Bitcoin that the
    03:09 reason you can buy it at the price
    03:11 you’re buying it for today instead of a
    03:13 price that is radically higher price.
    03:16 And if nobody was willing to sell it to
    03:18 you at $100,000 or $104,000 per coin,
    03:21 you would have to pay infinitely more
    03:23 than that for your Bitcoin. So that’s
    03:25 the way money works. Advice is the same
    03:27 as always. Buy as much Bitcoin as you
    03:29 can, hold on to it as long as
    03:31 conceivably possible, and use that to
    03:34 supercharge your finances, achieve
    03:36 financial freedom, and if your goal is
    03:39 generational wealth for your family,
    03:41 then do that, too. Stay safe out there,
    03:43 everyone, and have a great night.

Money naturally spreads. That’s a bad thing if your bitcoin is leaving your possession, but a good thing if bitcoin is leaving someone else’s possession and coming to you. Here are a few thoughts:

**Originally Recorded on 5/11/2025**

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