I picked up an international request recently and got paid in HBD for it, and that got me to thinking about a couple of things... obviously, HBD with the V4V app available is just Bitcoin twice removed, so I could convert that payment to Bitcoin with the quickness...
But that also started me to thinking about what my life would be like if I focused on using my many skills in circles in which being paid in Bitcoin was a first option. What would my life look like? What kinds of circles would I be in, compared with those I am in today?
The first thing that came to mind is to use Hive as an example: Hive is a diverse international pool of individuals, many of whom I have come to know and love. This is not unlike living in San Francisco, CA with its international outlook and anything-goes attitude ... and not without certain problems that go with that because fiat money is divided so unevenly between strata in society. On Hive, no matter how poor someone may be, he or she can better her situation through good and consistent work -- content creation, development, task-based situations promoting Hive elsewhere.
Now, there are wrinkles to this as well, as there are people who absolutely HATE folks for taking care of their own needs with Hive instead of putting almost everything into building up the chain, and there is vast inequality of stake allowing certain bad actors to wreak their hate. There is also community pushback, too, though, and thus a measure of real balance ... so, it is not as bad as fiat world.
But with Bitcoin, which is Proof-of-Work, that portion of the challenge simply would not exist. That fact appeals to me more and more. Nobody can downvote our access to Bitcoin. No matter how much Bitcoin someone else has, that person cannot stop us from getting whatever Satoshis may be available through the work of mining, or getting onto private networks and setups that have Bitcoin available. A Bitcoin faucet can be a slow process indeed of getting Bitcoin, but if it is working, and you are positioned, that's that.
Of course, One Bitcoin Club offers the best of both Hive and Bitcoin worlds ... but we already know that, so, let's move on.
The first real internal challenge to this line of thought for me is that I would be choosing to live in a world that the vast majority of the people I know are actively choosing not to be in. When I say actively choosing, it is because they know me, and they've heard me talking about how to get started and going with Bitcoin, and what it can already do in the world. "Abandon hope, all ye who FAIL to enter here" -- maybe things are not quite that bad, but one has to consider that most are actively choosing not to understand investment period.
However, the structure they all depend upon and want to see uphold them is actively being kicked away: employment is being transformed by AI, civil rights are being rolled back, and the social safety net as it depends on the federal government is actively being destroyed. In essence, though they by fiat want things to work without them having to change, this is not what is going to happen. There is a level of grief with understanding the difficulty so many are about to be in, but of the five stages of grief, I have passed denial and anger, and I am leaving bargaining and depression. I am approaching acceptance. It does not mean I do not and will not care, but it does mean I am going to be limited in what I can do to help, by situation, but also by discipline. As a well-studied Christian, I know even God usually rescues in advance, not after all urgings and warnings are ignored. I also must practice this hard part of what I preach.
Today for lunch, or tomorrow for breakfast, or BOTH, access to Bitcoin through V4V's HBD transfer means I can eat courtesy of the person whose international request I fulfilled -- it would take the Bitcoin-to-fiat step, but still, doable. In San Francisco I can also buy Bitcoin in several shops and stores -- and in fact, that's not uncommon in the world any more: check out Bitcoin Depot! And of course, I have been managing a great deal of my life this way for a good while. Hive and Bitcoin, together, paid for the development of my book, Seizing the Crypto Bull Run for Financial Freedom, and the book and the course built from it are now sitting on Hivelist for sale for both Hive and Bitcoin -- no fiat option for the course at present!
It is not that another world is possible. That world is here, quite mighty in San Francisco, and I am already a citizen. My fiat life has recently brought me over to the side of town where one of the city's Bitcoin hubs is. Things are coming together and there is no reason for me to resist that. Six years on Hive, and with V4V therefore being able to access Bitcoin at will ... 1.5 years an Amazon best seller with Seizing the Crypto Bull Run ... trying to share about both Hive and Bitcoin to people who just aren't ready to hear it ... that is all excellent preparation to know that it is time to move forward now to find more of my fellow citizens and #rwr -- Roll With the Ready.
"Will Work for Bitcoin" -- another world is possible, and is here.