If you treat bitcoin like a video game, you'll get rich

There is a specific type of player that keeps getting rich from Bitcoin. High pattern recognition, social pressure immunity, maybe a little bit of weaponized autism. So, today I'm going to show you how treating Bitcoin like a video game will save you thousands of hours of pain, but also leave you richer than 99% of other players. Every video game, tutorial, island, or finance video pretty much teaches you the same thing. Here are the rules. Here's how to win. Now go diversify your portfolio or curb stomp some turtles. Bitcoin's tutorial does something a little bit different, but 99% of people skip it and fumble the bag. See, nobody boots up a copy of Zelda and says, "I want to retire with a lot of rupees." You farm the rupees so that you can get a better shield, a bigger quiver, a house in Hiteno Village so that you don't have to live in a tree stump. No offense, Link. The money, the rupees are just a means to an end. In a video game, that is super clear. But in reality, Bitcoin investors get this completely backwards. They capture some Bitcoin, but then they obsess over a dollar number. If it hits 200K, I'll have a lot of money and I'll do something. The people who actually win at the game of Bitcoin define their objectives first. I want to buy a house. I want to start a business. I never want to get on a Zoom call with a bunch of NPCs ever again. What? It's true. Once you know that exact thing, the game of Bitcoin becomes about seeing how long you can wait before you need it and how much you're willing to work to get that thing in the present. Because every year that you stay in, the thing gets cheaper, not in dollars, in Bitcoin. This house behind me cost 103 Bitcoin in 2015. Today, it's only 17 Bitcoin. In four or five years, it might only be 8 Bitcoin. The longer you can hold the in-game currency, the less of it that you have to spend to get the thing that you want. Pricing the things that you want in Bitcoin is the ultimate tutorial in delayed gratification and patience. And it's a good thing that you have that because the moment that you leave this area, the game is going to try everything it can to make you rage quit. Bitcoin's main quest line can be a little bit boring. Buy, hold, wait, wait longer, watch the same 11 podcast guests level up your confirmation bias. It's not exactly a Mario party. So, naturally, your eyes start to wander around the rest of the map. And that map is full of side quests. A shitcoin is up 200% this week. This one chart indicator can make you millions. A new treasury company that definitely won't sell its Bitcoin at the bottom of the bare market just IPOed. The difference is in a video game, the developer designs the quests for you. They want you to have fun. The worst case scenario, you waste an hour in a dungeon. In Bitcoin's game, the side quests are built by the other players who want your Bitcoin. And uh definitely know how bored you are of the main campaign. It's more of a PvP arena, a zero someum game. Your impatience and boredom with the main campaign directly benefits them. And sure, not all of these side quests are scams, but if 90 to 99% of them are, do you really think you're smart enough to know which ones are worth your time or your Bitcoin? Did you spend the last 100 hours trying to grind up your speech skill? No. Well, the guy trying to sell you altcoins or stocks definitely did. The problem with Bitcoin's main quest, it almost seems too simple. Buy, hold, eventually get rich. There's got to be something more to do, right? There is. Grind your stats, bro. Read a book so you can build your conviction skill. Level up your income skill so you can earn more Bitcoin. >> Work out so you can build your health skill to see the 18th Bitcoin having >> The whole point of a skill tree is that it makes you a better player permanently. You don't lose a skill when the market drops 80%. You go into the next boss fight with more firepower than what you started with. And speaking of boss fights, Bitcoin has some really annoying ones. China bans, quantum computing, whales dumping, black rock suppressing the price. Those ones are kind of easy. Spam a couple of these, delete your social media, and you'll forget they even existed. But eventually, you'll come across one of these. A bare market. A son of a This guy, he doesn't kill you directly. He just sits on your chest for 18 months until you tap out. You watch your net worth drop by 70% and you question if the pain is even worth it. Nobody is safe from the bear. Not you, not Michael Sailor, not even the president of El Salvador. Naive Boulli made Bitcoin a legal tender and bought hundreds of millions of dollars worth of it at $60,000 right before the market topped in 2021. It then dropped 70% to $17,000 over the next year. And every media outlet called his Bitcoin experiment a total failure. But instead of walking away, he doubled down. He bought even more Bitcoin during the carnage and then even put Bitcoin into the high school education curriculum and tourism campaigns. Four years later, he is now massively in profit. And El Salvador is the second fastest growing tourism destination on Earth. Seriously, go check that place out if you haven't. They are crushing it. Every final boss in a video game has phases, and Bitcoin's final boss does, too. Phase one, the price drops, and everyone says it's a healthy correction. Phase two, it keeps dropping, and the explanations get more creative. Phase three, the group chat goes quiet. The Bitcoin podcasters start talking about geopolitics, AI, or uh Pokemon cards. Total silence, and that's the tell. I have seen three bare markets in my 10 years of Bitcoin, and the complete silence is almost always the bottom. And what looks like a challenge is actually the best spot to buy Bitcoin or grind some XP. Suck it, bear. If you make it through a full 4-year Bitcoin cycle to the post game, you are going to walk away with something very specific. And it's not about Bitcoin. Somewhere between my first bare market and my second one, I started to notice that the one thing in my life that behaves like Bitcoin, genuinely scarce, non-renewable, very hard to replace when spent is time itself. If I value Bitcoin because it is perfectly scarce, why wouldn't I treat my own time, my precious hours, with the same sort of reverence? Why do I spend hours monitoring the situation on Twitter? Why do you spend a Tuesday angry at a friend, a partner, or one of your parents? The real wealth that you get from Bitcoin is not some dollar figure or something that you can buy. It's getting your time back. The post game is figuring out how to use that time. I am not here to judge how you spend your time, but I will tell you what has worked for me and what I've noticed. The people who can take their reclaimed hours and spend them on those who really, really value them, that is a trade that pays into eternity. That is the secret ending. It's not the number on the screen, not the Lambo, not the beach, just you with your time back sharing it with people that make the game of life worth living. Oh, and speaking of which, I'm going to be in BTC Prague this year, and I want to meet some of you that have given me so much of your time watching these videos over the last few months. If you don't already know, BTC Prague is Europe's biggest Bitcoin conference, and I'm actually going to be giving a presentation there on Bitcoin and the great wealth transfer to Gen Z on Friday, June 12th. If you have never been to a Bitcoin conference before, this is by far one of the highest rated ones. And there's going to be all sorts of speakers like Michael Sailor, Jack Malers, Jeff Booth, and many, many more. If you're curious, you can go get tickets here with a pretty hefty discount. And yeah, I hope I see you there.