I get why people say "never sell your Bitcoin" and ... it's the wrong message for the next wave of Bitcoin adopters. The right message is "Never sell the Bitcoin you've decided never to sell" but also "Use your Bitcoin you've decided to use!" If you use a portion of your Bitcoin (you decide what, 0.1%, 1%, 10%) you'll be doing a net good for Bitcoin. Here's why: For Bitcoin to win, it needs widespread adoption. I think that's pretty uncontentious. To achieve widespread adoption, Bitcoin needs inspiring stories, it needs everyday use cases, and it needs to be normalized. The positive impact for Bitcoin adoption of achieving these goals vastly outweighs any counter-force of mildly diminishing supply shock. When @square or @MoneyBadgerPay enable widespread merchant Bitcoin payments, or @EverGive_ allow charitable giving in BTC - this progresses all 3 goals Thanks to Bitcoin, Millions of small business owners, who've been held ransom by credit card companies who fleece them high fees that eat into their razor-thin profits, now have an escape path that helps in a meaningful way out of subsistence living. That's an inspiring story. For Bitcoin's future adoptors, this is - a more tangible message than "separate money from state" - a more inspiring message than "never sell your Bitcoin" and ... it is the wedge that will have them see Bitcoin in a positive, useful, normalized light that gets them potentially curious to see how else it can be used.(Daniel Batten)