frozen time
money is frozen time.
you traded hours for it.... days, years. your attention, your energy, your irreplaceable moments on this planet converted into numbers in an account. then they printed more, and your frozen time melted. thats what inflation does. it steals the hours you already worked. not dramatically. not all at once. just slowly enough that most people dont notice until they look back and realize their savings buy half what they used to.
michael saylor calls it "monetary energy" and he's right about the physics even if the metaphor sounds strange at first. money is supposed to be a battery for your effort. you work, you store that work, you spend it later when you need it. but fiat currencies are leaking batteries. a dollar in 2015 buys about seventy cents worth of stuff today. thats not a small leak. thats thirty percent of your frozen time.... gone. evaporated. transfered to whoever got the new money first.
bitcoin doesnt melt.
twenty-one million coins. forever. no one can print more. no politician, no emergency, no crisis changes the math. the code doesnt care about elections or pandemics or wars. it just keeps running, block after block, enforcing the same rules it enforced on day one. when you store time in bitcoin, it stays frozen until you decide to spend it. not until someone else decides to dilute it.
this is what most people miss when they look at the price charts and see volatility. they're measuring bitcoin in melting dollars. of course it looks unstable. the ruler keeps shrinking. measured in purchasing power over any five-year window, bitcoin holders have preserved and grown their stored time while dollar holders watched theirs evaporate. the volatility isnt bitcoin being unstable. its the market figuring out how much a non-melting asset is actualy worth in a world where everything else leaks.
fiat forces you to run faster just to stay in place. you cant just save. you have to invest, speculate, take risks you didnt ask for, just to maintain what you already earned. thats not freedom. thats a treadmill designed to make you feel like youre moving while the floor slides backward.
bitcoin rewards patience. one system melts your savings while you sleep. the other keeps them. one system punishes you for waiting. the other rewards you for it. low time preference wins. it always has. but for most of human history there wasnt an asset that let ordinary people practice it. gold was too heavy, too hard to verify, too easy to confiscate. bitcoin fixes all three.
this isnt about price. its about what happens to your hours after you trade them for money.
do they stay yours, or do they slowly disappear?
