Bitcoin is Money – Episode-3633

The Survival Podcast

Philosophy, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 25 February 2025

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Summary

Bitcoin arguments get weird fast. Proponents say never spend it, but imagine saying, “Never spend your money.” Others insist you must spend it to help it gain acceptance—would you ever say, “You have to spend YOUR MONEY to make it legitimate?” Meanwhile, critics call it volatile while ignoring that the dollar has lost 99% of its value. The confusion vanishes when you strip away the hype and just call Bitcoin what it is: money. In this episode, I break down the nonsense from both sides, showing how many so-called debates fall apart the moment you apply the same logic to … Continue reading →

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0:00.0	There's a better way to do this.
0:08.7	Let me show you a better way.
0:16.3	And we are live.
0:20.6	Welcome folks to what are we looking at.
0:23.2	Episode 3,633 of the Survival Podcast.
0:28.6	And since this is the promised Bitcoin show that was coming this week, it's also Bitcoin
0:33.1	breakout number 57, yeah, 57 Bitcoin Break since we launched that a couple years ago.
0:41.2	So probably about one every two weeks.
0:43.2	It doesn't feel that way, but when you do the math across time, that's what it is.
0:47.5	There's times when they come in bursts and there's times when they go away for a month or so.
0:51.8	It just is the way it is.
0:53.2	I will let you know we will have another Bitcoin show not too far in the future.
0:57.9	Stephen Lubka from Swan Bitcoin will be returning to the show for an interview.
1:02.4	So that one's definitely going to be about Bitcoin.
1:05.4	There's a lot of people in the comments saying, I bought today's drop, bought today's dip.
1:10.3	And I'll just point out for a bit, it's pretty interesting to me to be talking about Bitcoin
1:18.0	and buying the dip in the mid to upper $80,000 range.
1:24.0	And that kind of fits in with what we're going to talk about today.
1:29.2	Bitcoin being the best store of value or form of money that we have. And so what we're going to come at this
1:36.1	today is arguments from both sides are statements that are made continuously by both sides
1:41.9	of the Bitcoin world that sort of fall apart when we just
1:45.5	change the word Bitcoin into money.
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