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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: HODLing Bitcoin isn't merely an "investment"
by
South Park
on 03/05/2023, 21:00:08 UTC
I saw a post made by someone in which he told his story about his investment in Bitcoin and how it helped him go through the financially challenging times that the COVID-19 pandemic brought. A good, heart-warming  story by a fellow Bitcoiner, BUT we shouldn't forget that simply HODLing/owning Bitcoin could also be a kind of political movement, because its features could make Bitcoin weaken or break down political strongholds.

It might be premature to call it a revolutionary movement, but what were the motivations of the early cypherpunks when they were building their tools? Satoshi's message in the Genesis Block is also political.

 Cool
It depends, I am pretty sure that a great deal of the early adopters did not bought or mine bitcoin because they wanted to obtain money, or at least it was not their main motivation, their main motivation was to be part of a project which could change the world, but since then the motivations of the people that come to this market have changed in dramatic ways, and they do not care at all about the ideology or the principles behind bitcoin, they care about the personal benefits they can get out of it and that is it, and personally I am not against it as if there is something that anyone can understand are the benefits they can get out of something.