Can a bitcoin holder be an addict to bitcoin holding?

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Maybe says Mr Know all Satofan44. Or he is referring to buyers and sellers that pay with bitcoin.

I know this guy is good in technical discussions, but there are times that he is posting rubbish. 348Judah posted about bitcoin usage. What he meant was that people do not lose. I concluded that what he will mean is people to be using bitcoin to buy and sell goods and services, but I also talk about holding.

Maybe Mr Know all Satofan44 did not read all what I posted, but see what he posted:

We can easily understand what you are trying to talk about, but bitcoin is not what someone can abuse, so it is not an addiction if you are using bitcoin to trade or if you hold it.

Nonsense, anything can become an addiction and can be abused including Bitcoin. Just because you can't wrap your mind around concepts like addiction, that does not make something impossible.

But this was what I posted in full:

We can easily understand what you are trying to talk about, but bitcoin is not what someone can abuse, so it is not an addiction if you are using bitcoin to trade or if you hold it. I am not talking about bitcoin or crypto trading using bitcoin as pairs, I mean if you are using it to buy things and also accepting it from people that want to buy something from you. But it is very distinct that if you hold bitcoin, you will make profit from it.

Despite I mentioned that I am not talking about trading, see the rubbish that he posted. Satofan44 may be spamming with some good posts in-between his post history. Please, people should monitor his post. He did not read everything that I posted, but quote half of what I posted, and he posted insults like he is a fool.

[Satofan44]

You should read this book. You are shitposting nonsense all the time because you are an uneducated and filthy 3rd world pajeet, perhaps some internet warrior will defend your stupidity here. Don't blame them for being stupid, they are just poor little savages!  



Without even trying at all my posts are better than the posts of 99.9% of the users here, and no amount of salt will change that.  

This thread could be closed as it was now explained by several members, but I assume it will be left open to reach 30 pages of useless and generic shitposts by people who have 0 education about addiction (or anything else for that matter). Let's see.

Derivative threads count too, my how predictable the savages are.

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You should read this book. You are shitposting nonsense all the time because you are an uneducated and filthy 3rd world pajeet, perhaps some internet warrior will defend your stupidity here. Don't blame them for being stupid, they are just poor little savages!  Roll Eyes

This your spam let me know that you are more of an animal.

Your stupid thinking of not understanding someone let me know how foolish you are. You think you come from the Western nation, but I guess hell is where you come from.

You lack respect, you are a racist that think can talk to anyone anyhow. I hope your stupid nature will not continue.

This thread would have been better self-moderated for an animal like you.

You may think you are a good poster, but the animals I have with me in my house are much more better than what you think you are posting, and also better than you to me to know how useless you are to me.

I do not gain anything from you than irrelevant arguments and quarrel, you may be useful to those in technical discussionsa bitcoin, but know that I know way to avoid scammers and other bad people which is all that I want. You are of no use to me

You are recommending me a book that I did not need. I know about addition than (you that read it and understood that there is no addiction in bitcoin holding or using it to buy and sell goods and services).

Please, can better people post and leave this moron alone.

[Satofan44]

You are recommending me a book that I did not need. I know about addition than (you that read it and understood that there is no addiction in bitcoin holding or using it to buy and sell goods and services).

Absolutely you can get addicted to all of those behaviors, including Bitcoin holding, Bitcoin payments and Bitcoin trading and the latter is the most frequent of the 3. Just because something is extremely rare, that does not make it impossible. Like I said, you are an uneducated 3rd world pajeet and you have just proved it again with your "knowledge". "I'm just stupid, racism racism, someone please help me"

The list of things that one can not get addicted to is extremely small that it is not worth mentioning at all, and probably some deranged human specimen will find a way to get addicted to those things in weird ways too.

I know about addition than

You can't even write coherent sentences, you should give it up -- you are just a mentally handicapped shitposter from the 3rd world hoping to get some validation from the few examples of misplaced kindness that is sometimes given by a few members here who don't know any better. You can't fool anyone with a working brain that isn't deranged by leftism though. "At least he tries hard, give him a participation medal!".

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Even pajeet LLM ChatGPT confirms it in this un-edited quote:

Yes — those can absolutely become addiction-like or compulsive for some people, though the mechanisms can differ. For example:

Trading crypto can resemble gambling addiction for certain people because of:

• rapid wins/losses,
• unpredictability,
• constant price checking,
• adrenaline,
• “maybe this next trade changes everything” thinking,
• social hype and FOMO.

Holding Bitcoin (“HODLing”) can become obsessive in a different way:

• constantly checking portfolio value,
• tying identity or self-worth to the asset,
• doomscrolling news,
• inability to mentally disengage,
• treating every life decision through the lens of the asset.

That’s not automatically addiction, but it can become compulsive or anxiety-driven.

Paying with Bitcoin usually isn’t addictive by itself, but someone could become psychologically attached to:

• the ideology,
• the feeling of autonomy,
• the community,
• the ritual,
• or the identity associated with using crypto.

These are some basic ideas that it is able to predict, the rarer the way it manifests the more unlikely it is that an LLM would suggest that specific form of manifestation. Anyway the conclusion is:

Yes — people can develop addiction-like patterns around a very wide range of behaviors, including ones that seem rare, unusual, or highly specific.

I even acted as an editor for some papers about this very topic in a niche variant, but you are too stupid to find out who I am.  

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To answer the question - anything that releases dopamine can get you addicted.  If someone gets a rush each time the price goes up and it is not nullified when the price goes down - that could be an addiction.  It would be stupid to stop such an addiction though since it gives the user pleasure without consequences. 

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To answer the question - anything that releases dopamine can get you addicted.  If someone gets a rush each time the price goes up and it is not nullified when the price goes down - that could be an addiction.  It would be stupid to stop such an addiction though since it gives the user pleasure without consequences.  

Yeah, that is what the AI said basically just in a more nuanced and detailed way. I didn't paste that part, but it should be obvious that there are uniting threads across behaviors. I mean people can even get themselves programmed to release dopamine with behaviors that don't work for other people, which albeit rare would happen mostly subconsciously. That is one way that they can get addicted to something very unusual, but there are other mechanisms that compel them to engage in those behaviors besides addiction.

When average people usually talk about addictions such as the person who opened the thread, they are talking about compulsive behaviors in general more often than not since they do not know the real definition of an addiction. It is just one of those words that is overused in normal talk, and because it is heard frequently many people believe that they know what it means. The definitions in scientific literature are quite different than what people believe, otherwise they would not make basic errors regarding these topics.