The day the simulation glitched

[BlackHatCoiner]

You know what happened the day you finally understood bitcoin?

The mask fell off.

You stopped pretending your relationship wasn't a negotiated ceasefire.
You stopped calling compliance "career growth."
You stopped pretending your savings account had a future.
You stopped pretending stock markets were anything but state-sponsored simulations backed by the faceless fiatlords.
You stopped pretending war and debt were separate industries.
You stopped pretending this is normal life.

The fog burned off.

You scroll through the origins of the Federal Reserve at 3 AM and feel an agent from Matrix is watching you.
You watch a two-hour podcast about money and realize the world runs on debt, antidepressants and denial.
You run a full node, and feel like you're committing a felony.

You sat there, and realized people once revolted over a 2% tax, and now you surrender half your income just to rent existence from a collapsing empire.

You didn't buy bitcoin to win.
You bought it because you were tired of playing a rigged game.
Because your father spent his life producing value just to retire into debt.
Because your bank account was frozen for sending €250 to a friend.
Because the man on TV wears a suit and a rehearsed smile while describing civilizational decay as "market adjustments."
Because comfort made everyone obedient.

Bitcoin didn't improve your portfolio.
It rewired your perception.

You started eating like a human, not a schizophrenic overconsumer medicating boredom with calories.
You train your body and mind, because your ancestors didn't survive famine and war for you to decay behind a screen.
You stopped kneeling to titles, logos, and institutional priests.

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

[Karl_3000]

Bitcoin didn't improve your portfolio.

Bitcoin improved my portfolio.

Bitcoin isn't an investment.

If bitcoin is not an investment, it will not have the huge marketcap it is having today, bitcoin is an asset and it is a means of investment. Because bitcoin is an asset is the reason I was interested.

[Finestream]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

I don’t usually read long posts, but this one I couldn’t skip. I just had to quote this part because I definitely agree with it.

Although I still see Bitcoin as an investment since it grows over time like traditional ones, I also like how you described it as an evaluation from modern slavery. That’s true. Let me relate it to our country: when our government is corrupt, everything we see becomes fake. There’s no real assurance that the future will be good because the greedy ones just take whatever they want, leaving the country to struggle, maybe even face hyperinflation. Fiat dies, but with Bitcoin, as long as we hold it, it frees us from that kind of system.

Thanks for sharing this, really learned something new - definitely worth reading.

[Moreno233]

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

Bitcoin is freedom! This is what I have come to understand. I cannot remember keeping substantial fiat in my bank account anymore except those for my day-to-day activities and that saved me from constant high bank charges, account maintenance fee, email and SMS charges, ATM service charge, unending daily and monthly withdrawal limit in my account and many other bogus charges just to exploit people. Bitcoin solved all these plus more and knowing about Bitcoin have been my greatest achievement and the best thing that have happened to me.

[Btcdeybodi]

Yet another one of your numerous poems i enjoy reading, i could remember in the past when some of your poetic messages were moved to the off-topics board but it is what it is, they are still relevant there, besides, off-topics is not a trashcan

~cut out~

Bitcoin isn't an investment.
It's an evacuation machine from modern slavery with debt instead of chains, HR departments instead of priests, and antidepressants instead of hope.

I am so interested in this line of your poem which is to let us understand that bitcoin has come to rescue us from the modern slavery called 'fiats'. Maybe we are headed on our way to financial freedom since we are already moving out from modern slavery. Well-done BlackHatCoiner

[Odohu]

I learnt about Bitcoin from the angle of utility, at a point in my country where access to FX for international transaction was something reserved for the privileged and few items chosen by the government. The need to send transaction across borders pushed me to begin the inquiry on how to get this done. Paypal, Neteller, wire transfer and many other means of doing this were restricted in my country. Lo and behold, Bitcoin was suggested and I was amazed at how I could carry out transaction that take days in conventional payment systems in minutes. I paid for FX courses abroad and many other programs I was running then within minutes. Bitcoin opened a new chapter for me and since then I have never doubted what Bitcoin can do. Although it never occurred to me earlier that I could be changing my life for good if I held some of those Bitcoin I was buying to pay for services. But I have no regrets, I used Bitcoin as a means of payment and that is part of what Bitcoin was created to do.

[Sanitough]

You didn't buy bitcoin to win.
You bought it because you were tired of playing a rigged game.
Because your father spent his life producing value just to retire into debt.

This really hits me hard. I’ll never forget how my father worked so hard retired from public service but still ended up in debt, with just enough retirement money to cover his medications. I don’t want to follow that same path, that’s why I chose freedom, and for me, that’s Bitcoin.

@OP reminded me once again that I shouldn’t neglect the value of Bitcoin. Instead of spending it carelessly, I should keep it.

Fiat is controlled by the corrupt, that’s why… FIAT = RIGGED.

[Pumpsta]

Oh man I wish all lines were true in my case too but I’m still left with a few unchecked. I guess there’s still stuff to learn For most of the people I know who’re involved in Bitcoin now, all it took was one try of a real transaction (like an Electrum transaction, not spending from binance or whatever). They immediately fell in love with BTC!

All you gotta do is try it out, and when you realize what it can do for you.. you can’t keep your eyes shut forever