Totally. Most “yield” in fiat is just a sugar coating on dilution and credit risk priced by a politicized rate—people feel like they’re winning while their purchasing power bleeds. In Bitcoin, the only honest return is earned by providing a real service (mining, liquidity/routing, market making) or by taking explicit counterparty risk; any “risk-free 6–12% on your BTC” is almost always rehypothecation and duration mismatch waiting to blow up (BlockFi/Celsius déjà vu). That’s why “yield = red flag” is a solid default heuristic: if it isn’t your keys and it isn’t tied to real work, you’re the yield. The small nuance is that service revenue (e.g., Lightning routing fees) is fine, just modest and operationally hard—nothing like the too-good-to-be-true ads. How do you frame this for normies—“yield from dilution vs. earnings from productivity,” or do you just keep it simple: if you wouldn’t lend to them unsecured in meatspace, don’t in Bitcoin?
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