Yesterday I was talking about the hardware wallet investment with my friend. The first one we bought was the legendary Trezor and I shared with them that was my first and only time purchasing something with Bitcoin.
Then I felt something is not right, purchase time should be at half a year ago when Bitcoin price is not this high yet. Quickly search through my inbox to make sure how much I've paid for the wallets.
Holy shit, 0.1197 BTC for a Trezor multipack! That was priced at USD 286 at that moment including shipping. And 0.11 BTC is around USD 1631 now. In less than 8 months I've lost USD 1345 over a purchase. All because there was an option to pay with Bitcoin when I checkout my order, and I thought that was a good idea to actually purchase something with the virtual currency. Real application right?
Since then, I make sure I spend my fiat and keep every bit of my cryptocurrencies. Paid my next bitcoin-acceptable purchase of second wallet Ledger via Visa gladly, never mind the processing fee they charging on me(talking about fee, Bitcoin have the worst fee now).
So the moral of this story is, people don't like to spend what tends to rise in value, they rather treat it as an investment. Bitcoin is now very much become a store of value instead of what it initially wanted to be as a digital currency.
If you have faith in the cryptocurrencies that you hold, try not to spend it just for the sake of feeling useful. Or you spend it and never look back like the buyer of the 10,000 BTC pizza.
昨天和朋友谈起硬体钱包的事宜，当初刚进入币圈的时候知道这钱包的好处，就联合几个志同道合的朋友入手了一个 Trezor。Trezor 是接受比特币付款的，出于好奇心，那也是我第一次也是唯一一次使用比特币购买东西。
谈着谈着忽然觉得有什么不对劲，购买钱包的时候已经大半年以前了，那时比特币还远远没现在这样值钱啊，赶紧打开邮箱查看当时到底付了多少。
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我的妈，一套三件的 Trezor 配套总值 286 美金我当时居然给了 0.1197 BTC ！转换成美金即是 1631 元。这就是说，八个月前的一次购物，到现在足足亏损了 1345 美金。一切都是因为当时一颗想使用比特币的心，用比特币买东西好棒棒哦不是吗？
从此以后，我确保可以用现金的时候尽量不用比特币了。在上次购买第二个也接受比特币付款的 Ledger 钱包时也使用了 Visa，传统的高手续费我也付得心甘情愿（话说现在应该没什么手续费是高得过比特币，唉）。
这个故事里我们学到，人们不会喜欢把有升值潜力的东西当作现金花掉，这也是为什么比特币与其成为它本来想成为的货币，到现在却成了保值品。
如果你对现在持有的加密货币有信心，尽量继续持有它们别花掉吧。又或者是毅然把它们花了然后永远不回头看，就像那花了 10,000 比特币买比萨饼的仁兄。
agree with you, mate, btw the pizza article was amazing! Is there any reason why I can't upvote now?
Thanks buddy! But not sure why you can't upvote, maybe you voting power is too low now?
i don't think I get that thing with the "voting power"... how do i regain it? :D
The only thing I get, thus far, is that my "account value" is going up a bit...
Refer to the steemd.com, every day your voting power get replenish 20%.
ohhh... thanks again, it just happen to upvote for someone right now... sometimes this algorithm works peculiar...
怀疑是发行比特币那几个人，化妆成卖披萨的，再把比特币收回去哈哈哈哈哈，好让比特币流通起来，另外低价收回比特币囤起来哈哈哈哈哈
那倒不会啦，区区十千个比特币对早期那些人来说简直是不值一提好吗。
Trezor 配套总值 286 美金我当时居然给了 0.1197 BTC
这是你的真实经历？
我是比特币高点的时候买入的，买完就跌了，一蹶不振，你安慰一些了吗
非常真实啊，图二就是我收到的收据啊。安慰不到我啊，因为比特币一定会再创高峰的，你别急着卖掉就没事了。
谢谢@fr3eze 的分享...
我们一起在错误中学习吧！
加油！
Sincerely,
Hung (@iipoh06)
哈哈，这倒不算是什么错误啦，当下不会知道的啊。
Would BTC be considered money then?
It really depends on how you see it. For me it is more like an investment asset.
Sorry to break the news, but there is no currency in crypto ;))
At least back then you had no $40+ transaction fee for the payment, that you got now.
I´m still waiting for the day, when everyone wakes up and laughs at the idea we once had, that we could use cryptos as currencies and even named them like this^^
So you don' think crypto can be a solution for payment?
Well, I wished it was, but as it is at the moment, I see no crypto that has the potential to become a currency anytime in the near future. I see Crypto as an investment in startups or as an internal utility token like here on Steemit
Yeah maybe now at this moment they cant be one as they are at their rapid growth phase, but they will be one somehow in the future. As that is the purpose of everything in cryptocurrency.
True, but for that, they will need to be less volatile and when people won´t make so much money with it, they lose their interest. So there will be also a danger in this.
是呀，应该当成保值品，交易费太高了，应该像黄金一样
交易费的问题迟早应该会解决。
所以比特幣定量、長遠來說會增值，這一點跟要作為流通貨幣，是互相矛盾的，因為有違人類心理
就冲这点来说，看来作为货币真的是没戏了。无需手续费又有固定通膨率的币种较适合作为支付用途吧。
哈哈，之前那个用bitcoin买lambo的人也一样，如果迟一个月买就能买2辆
多一辆？这样一想还真的有点痛。
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