In an era marked by rising inflation, Bitcoin was framed as a radical 
experiment in digital cash. However, as the global economic landscape has 
shifted, the narrative around BTC has changed. It is now being discussed as a 
modern savings tool designed for a world where traditional savings are 
steadily losing their purchasing power. Normalisation Of Bitcoin As A Savings 
Asset A common framing of Bitcoin today is that it is a savings technology, 
digital gold, and something to hold, rather than use. According to Ben SAN&#8217;s 
post on X, that framing has become incomplete and ultimately wrong. This is 
because BTC is not meant to sit alongside fiat as another savings vehicle, but 
to replace fiat as a monetary base and a financial base that cannot be used or 
function as money. Related Reading: Bitcoin Supply Is Being Absorbed By 
Powerful Financial Players — What This Means However, for BTC to operate as a 
form of finance, it has to be usable at scale. That usability at scale implies 
execution, settlement abstraction, fast interactions, and cost-efficient 
transactions. BTC layer 1 is designed for finality and neutrality, not to 
satisfy these requirements, and it shouldn&#8217;t be. This is why BTC needs layer 
2s to operate as money. “Once you accept that Bitcoin needs L2s to be usable 
as money, you stop asking whether alts are competing with Bitcoin and start 
asking whether they are serving Bitcoin,” the expert stated. If acceptance of 
altcoins is ever possible in the BTC-first community, it won&#8217;t come from 
alternative monetary assets. Instead, the acceptance of the altcoins will only 
come from systems that keep BTC as the unit of account and native asset, while 
extending its usability crucially without weakening its guarantees. In these 
cases, auxiliary tokens may be introduced, but only where BTC is structurally 
incapable of performing the required coordination or incentive functions 
around expressiveness and yield. Furthermore, any non-BTC asset that has a 
legitimate chance of being accepted within the community will earn that 
legitimacy by filling those gaps in a way BTC itself cannot fulfill. History 
Shows What Happens After These Bitcoin Buys Crypto analyst Mattertrades 
highlighted that Bitcoin is trading above the weekly resistance, and the path 
is slow and clear. This setup is a result of Michael Saylor stepping in this 
week with his largest purchase since July, acquiring $1.5 billion worth of 
BTC. The last time he did this, BTC surged to $126,000. Related Reading: 
Bitcoin Demand Remains Weak: Setting The Stage For Long-Term Accumulation At 
the same time, the Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI)-related news 
for Strategy was very bullish, and it actually attracted more buyers. 
Mattertrades concluded that this is how a bullish case quietly forms. If 
Saylor&#8217;s purchases bring in more buyers, reflexivity will begin because when 
he starts accumulating such large amounts again, other players will follow 
suit. Featured image from Getty Images, chart from Tradingview.com

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