"I'll never sell my bitcoin." Fine. You don't have to.
Spend and replace: pay a merchant in bitcoin, then immediately rebuy the same amount with fiat. Your stack ends the day exactly where it started. The difference is bitcoin actually moved, and the circular economy grew by one more transaction.
Here's the part most people miss. Pure hoarding is rational for you alone · Gresham's law, spend the bad money and keep the good. But if everyone hoards and no one spends, bitcoin never becomes money. The thing that's smart for one holder is self-defeating for all of us. Spend and replace is how you escape that without touching your position.
It already works. Bitcoin Beach in El Zonte. Bitcoin Ekasi in South Africa. Whole local economies running on it.
And the rails just got bigger. In 2026 Square auto-enabled bitcoin payments over Lightning for roughly 800,000 US sellers. Opt-out, zero processing fees through 2026, dollars settled by default. The customer flips a toggle or scans a QR. Plenty of shops now take bitcoin and don't even know it. Ask at the till.
Spend, replace, repeat:
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