I have been thinking about this for a while.
Every well-meaning Bitcoin explainer I read still frames Bitcoin as an investment. Volatility. Portfolio. Allocation. The correction to bad Bitcoin advice is always better Bitcoin investment advice.
That is the problem. Bitcoin was never supposed to be an investment. It was supposed to be money.
Fiat is a ruler that will not sit still. The entire investment industry exists because of that one design choice. If the ruler sat still, none of it would need to exist. Bitcoin is a ruler that sits still.
The mainstream media frames Bitcoin as a hot asset. Wall Street is building products to keep Bitcoin inside the fiat frame. Even people who understand Bitcoin's technology often still talk about it using the vocabulary that made fiat what it is.
The essay is now on the BFTA Substack. It walks through what money is supposed to do, the pathology of fiat, why Satoshi priced Bitcoin in dollars anyway as a psychological bridge, the Wall Street absorption problem, and why artists are uniquely positioned to lead the reframing.
It ends with a line I keep coming back to:
The ruler stopped moving. Look at the world through it. Everything else follows.
Read:

Bitcoin Was Never Supposed to Be an Investment
The word “investment” is doing all the damage. Here is how to think about Bitcoin as money, why we still cannot, and why every artist should le...
If you know one person in the arts who still thinks Bitcoin is a stock ticker, send this to them.
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