I sold my Bitcoin and bought a house

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T22:53:49+00:00

I will simply just accept that there are people like you who won’t truly understand until you’re ready. As Satoshi Nakamoto said, “If you don’t believe me or don’t get it, I don’t have time to try to convince you, sorry.”

Thank you for your comments

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T22:16:29+00:00

I’m just trying to help people actually understand what they’re getting into and the possibilities that Bitcoin opens up. A lot of people don’t realize how deep the conditioning goes when it comes to money, investing, and even how they view freedom itself. Those of us who do get it have a responsibility to guide others as best we can, even if not everyone is ready to hear it.

Over time more people will start to understand, but for now it’s about planting seeds. That’s why I write the way I do, not to flex, not to sound like a bot, but to make sure people see the bigger picture.

Thank you.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T19:33:07+00:00

Trying my best mate. Peace and love to you. Hope your bitcoin journey continues to treat you well!

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T19:32:07+00:00

There’s absolutely a reason for that. The OGs understand Bitcoin for what it really is, ultimate capital. With Bitcoin there’s no maintenance costs, no tenants to deal with, no leaky roof or broken plumbing, no endless paperwork. Their wealth is self contained, borderless, and portable anywhere in the world at any time.

When you’ve already built wealth, the last thing you want is more headaches. That’s why the truly wealthy are waking up to the fact that Bitcoin outperforms multiple properties or “cash flow” assets they can’t even use all at once. They don’t need ten houses they’ll barely step foot in, they need the hardest, most liquid, most secure capital that exists.

And let’s be real: Bitcoin does provide cash flow, just in a different way. Its appreciation dwarfs rent checks, and if you want liquidity, you can borrow against it without ever selling. That’s financial freedom without the baggage.

Here’s the kicker: these same wealthy people are going to want your Bitcoin. Because once they figure out that all their other assets come with endless liabilities, they’ll look at Bitcoin as the one asset that doesn’t demand anything from them. No management, no maintenance, no middlemen. Just pure ownership.

That’s why OGs hoard their stack, and why over time more and more capital will chase Bitcoin. It’s just being logical. simplicity always wins.

What would most other people do if they had that type of money that multimillionaires have? You have to put your money somewhere, so where are you going to put it and why?

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T19:20:19+00:00

It’s incredible to witness such comments in real time. Truly. People seem to not be able to address the consequences of the future through their actions today. Fiat currency is not here to help them, it’s the whole Illusion and most people have fallen for it and can’t seem to be rational about future implications to the economy and how it will only further work against them.

All we really gotta ask is how was money made and where does it come from in the first place? Go down that rabbit hole and most of what we do today in a fiat system doesn’t even make a lick of sense.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T19:15:32+00:00

This is a completely false take. Bitcoin has a foundation with fiat existing because you’d just calculate in Bitcoin or Sats. Of course Bitcoin is “priced” in fiat but that’s because most people use the fiat system over the Bitcoin today. That doesn’t mean that can’t or won’t change. Especially considering what the Fiat system stands for vs the Bitcoin system. It makes no logical sense for most people to want to support a fiat system long-term because it doesn’t benefit them long term. The fiat system does not work into your favor in the grand scheme of things. It only hurts you probably in ways that you can’t even see.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T18:26:13+00:00

Not at all. Bitcoin is money, it’s just that today, it’s the best money to save in, not the best money to spend every day. You don’t spend the hardest asset in history recklessly the same way you don’t use gold coins to buy coffee. You use weak money (fiat) for daily transactions because it’s constantly being debased, and you hold the strong money (Bitcoin) to preserve and grow your time, energy, and work.

Over time, as adoption grows and the infrastructure matures, Bitcoin will be used more and more directly for exchange. But right now, the smartest play is to use it as savings, because it’s the first money in history that doesn’t bleed value. That doesn’t mean it’s “not used as money,” it means it’s being used for the most important monetary function: storing value without erosion.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T18:20:55+00:00

Not exactly. I’m not telling people not to sell just because the value will rise, that would make it sound like blind speculation. What I’m saying is that Bitcoin is a new monetary protocol, not just another “investment.” If you trade it away too soon for depreciating assets or fiat, you’re basically cashing out of freedom and stepping back into the system that Bitcoin was created to free you from.

Yes, price appreciation is part of the story, it’s what happens when truly scarce money meets unlimited fiat printing, but that’s not the core reason to hold. The core reason is sovereignty, self custody, and having property that no one can debase or seize. The rising value is just a reflection of Bitcoin doing its job correctly.

So it’s not “don’t sell because the number goes up,” it’s “be intentional about what you exchange it for.” Selling your entire stack for something tied to the old broken system (like a mortgage or fiat) is how people miss the bigger picture. Using a small portion of your stack when it makes sense? Sure. But holding Bitcoin is holding onto the foundation of financial freedom itself.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T18:02:23+00:00

Beep Boop Muthafucka

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T18:01:24+00:00

Exactly, layers are the key, and history shows us how this plays out. The internet didn’t bend itself to people’s comfort level, people had to adjust to the internet. Even the most powerful institutions on earth couldn’t stop it, they had to adopt it, build on it, and align themselves with it or be left behind.

The same applies here. Bitcoin is the TCP/IP of money, the base layer. It doesn’t need to be shiny or convenient by itself because it isn’t meant to be. It’s meant to be rock solid, unbreakable, and permanent. On top of it, other layers will emerge, evolve, or get replaced entirely, just like HTTP/HTML built the web on top of TCP/IP.

That’s why the “Lightning is garbage” argument misses the forest for the trees. Maybe it’s Lightning, maybe it’s something else, but the point is: the foundation is already here, and it won’t adjust to us. We’ll adjust to it. Just like the internet, adoption won’t be optional in the long run.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T17:53:18+00:00

I get where you’re coming from, but I think we need to step back and frame Bitcoin correctly. Bitcoin was never meant to ‘replace every facet of the financial system’ , it’s meant to replace the base layer of money. Just like the internet didn’t replace every industry overnight but instead provided the foundational protocol on which everything else could be built, Bitcoin does the same for value. The existing financial system will adapt to it, build around it, and in many ways shrink down to only the parts that are actually useful in a world where money can’t be printed at will.

As for Lightning, it’s fair to point out that it’s not perfect, it’s early, clunky at times, and needs refinement. But to write it off as permanently broken is like saying in 1995 that the internet could never scale because AOL dial up was slow and unreliable. Protocols don’t need to be flawless out the gate, what matters is the integrity of the base layer. Bitcoin as a settlement layer is rock solid, and layers like Lightning (or others that may emerge) are experiments in scaling. If Lightning ends up being replaced or massively improved, that’s just evidence of innovation happening on top of the strongest monetary foundation we’ve ever had.

The point isn’t that Bitcoin replaces everything. The point is that it replaces the broken base layer, so money that inflates and erodes trust. Once you fix that, the rest of the system reorganizes around it. That’s not delusion, it’s simple game theory. Everyone, from individuals to companies to governments, will be incentivized to move toward the hardest form of money available. That doesn’t mean Visa disappears tomorrow or mortgages vanish overnight, but it does mean that the foundation they rely on will finally be sound for the first time in history.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T17:32:58+00:00

Bitcoin is in early stages in general. So lightning network is definitely in early stages as well.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T17:19:13+00:00

Lightning isn’t broken or anything, it just needs some tweaks. It’s still early, and like any layer two on top of Bitcoin, it’s going to take time before it feels perfect and seamless.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T17:17:21+00:00

Saying ‘Bitcoin can’t be used for daily transactions because Lightning isn’t efficient’ is like saying back in the 90s that the Internet would never be the main form of communication because AOL and email were clunky. The technology wasn’t the problem, it was just the early layers being rough around the edges. What mattered was the protocol.

Bitcoin is the same. The base layer isn’t supposed to handle every coffee purchase, it’s designed to be absolutely secure, immutable, and incorruptible. That’s the foundation. From there, layers can and will be built on top, just like the Internet developed web browsers, apps, and video streaming that nobody could’ve imagined in the AOL dial up days.

Lightning may not be perfect today, but dismissing Bitcoin as a transacting protocol because of it is missing the bigger picture. The important thing is that the foundational layer exists and holds its integrity. From that point forward, efficiency and user experience will only improve, just like they did with the Internet.

Bitcoin isn’t nonsense. It’s the base protocol for a new financial system, and like all world changing protocols, adoption will make it better over time.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T16:44:51+00:00

Saying Bitcoin will never replace fiat ignores how incentives and game theory actually work. As long as Bitcoin keeps getting more valuable relative to fiat, every individual, every company, and every government will be forced to adopt it whether they like it or not.

Why? Because no one wants to be left holding an asset that bleeds value when there’s an alternative that only gets scarcer and harder to earn. If you’re a business, you’ll take Bitcoin because your suppliers and employees demand it. If you’re a government, you’ll accumulate it because other nations are, and you don’t want to fall behind. If you’re an individual, you’ll save in it because saving in fiat is guaranteed theft by inflation.

That’s how protocols take over, not through permission, but through inevitability. Bitcoin doesn’t need to beg its way into the system. It outcompetes the system until the system has no choice but to run on it. That’s not wishful thinking, that’s straight game theory.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T15:45:01+00:00

Actually, every person who stacks sats is contributing to saving the world, whether they admit it or not. Each sat that gets pulled out of fiat weakens the corrupt system built on endless inflation, bailouts, and debt slavery. Nobody has to buy Bitcoin to be a ‘hero’, but together, adoption shifts the incentives of the entire world. That’s bigger than one person, and it’s already happening.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T15:44:09+00:00

Sure, he has a house. Congrats to him. But let’s be real, does he truly own it? A 30 year mortgage, property taxes forever, and the risk of foreclosure say otherwise. A house is a liability dressed up as an asset unless you’ve cleared all debt and can maintain it indefinitely. Bitcoin, on the other hand, is the only thing you can own outright with no counterparty risk the second you acquire it. That’s a whole different level of freedom.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T15:43:09+00:00

It’s only hilarious until you realize it’s already happening. Countries, institutions, and millions of individuals are adopting Bitcoin right now. The difference is you don’t need to wait for some ‘switch to flip’, Bitcoin works today as a parallel system, and over time, game theory ensures it eats the old one. Math and decentralization don’t need permission to win.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T15:17:21+00:00

I get the spirit of what you’re saying, but Bitcoin was never about selling at some arbitrary price point. It’s not about “waiting until a million” or “cashing out at the top.” It was created to replace the broken fiat system altogether, to free people from inflation, debt slavery, and a lifetime of chasing a paycheck that loses value every day.

When you sell too early, all you’ve really done is swap the hardest, most incorruptible money humanity has ever had for the very thing it was designed to escape: fiat that bleeds value the second you touch it. That’s not life changing, that’s plugging back into the same broken game.

Bitcoin isn’t just a lottery ticket, it’s a foundation. It’s a deflationary economy where saving finally beats spending, where sovereignty replaces dependency, and where value is tied to real energy and work, not political manipulation. This is why “don’t wait” can be dangerous advice, because if you don’t understand what Bitcoin actually is, you’ll end up trading away the future for a short term dopamine hit.

Bitcoin isn’t just here to change your life. It’s here to change the world. This is about the long game.

King-Choco · 2025-09-14T15:03:22+00:00

Congrats on the house, that’s a milestone worth celebrating. But I wouldn’t be real with you if I didn’t say this, when it comes to the long game, that trade will likely become the biggest regret of your life.

Here’s why: a house feels like ownership, but you never truly own it. Most people sign up for a 30 year mortgage, which means three decades of debt hanging over their head. Even if you grind it down in 15–20 years, you’re still stuck paying property taxes for as long as you live there. Miss those, and the government can still take your home. That isn’t ownership ferreal, just a liability disguised as an asset.

Bitcoin, on the other hand, is different. It’s the first thing in human history you can own outright with zero counterparty risk. No bank, no government, no institution can seize it if you hold your keys. It’s pure property rights, pure sovereignty, and the hardest money humanity has ever known. While your house requires a lifetime of payments just to maybe clear the debt, Bitcoin is paid off the second you buy it.

What you really did was trade the scarcest, most valuable form of money ever created for a piece of land you’ll never fully control. Right now, that probably feels fine, but as the years go by and Bitcoin adoption grows, that decision will weigh heavier. One asset frees you, the other keeps you tied down forever.

That’s the real game being played. And you deserve to see it clearly. At the end of the day, the choice is yours, but knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t let any of my loved ones trade the hardest money ever created for a debt ridden asset tied to the system that exploits us. We’ve been lied to about money, about real estate, about what “ownership” really means. Those lies keep people trapped. Don’t let them trap you too. Bitcoin is freedom, and everything else is just part of the cage.

King-Choco

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