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+# Operation Saylor - Episode 10/120
+
+Hi again and welcome to another episode of the Operation Saylor. This is update number 10, corresponding to April
+2023.
+
+If you are reading this for first time, you might want to check [Episode 1](https://stacker.news/items/47539), where my
+plan and details are explained. That will get you in context.
+
+---
+
+## Stats
+
+- BTC stack: 1.4435 BTC
+- € stack: 404.20 €
+- Current total value in €: 36,926.24 €
+- € into BTC: 30,000 €
+- Paid back to bank: 3,295.80 € 
+- Outstanding debt: 40,648.53 €
+- Installments to go: 111
+
+## Charts
+
+[![episode-10-stack-value-vs-debt.png](https://i.postimg.cc/90tgvg6b/episode-10-stack-value-vs-debt.png)](https://postimg.cc/rRs94jFR)
+
+[![episode-10-bitcoin-stack.png](https://i.postimg.cc/D0KYp3Mm/episode-10-bitcoin-stack.png)](https://postimg.cc/ygvPWtBz)
+
+---
+
+## Log
+
+Another month drops by, and we finally enter the phase of Operation Saylor when the bitcoin stack starts getting 
+smaller. For the first time since this operation started, I have sold some sats to get euros back to put towards 
+the installments. Specifically, I sold around 2.5M sats to buy myself enough € for a couple of installments.
+
+I usually never sell bitcoin in exchange for euros. I never try to speculate with the shor-term swings of bitcoin's 
+price, so whatever I buy, I just hold. So, reversing the flow feels nasty. Oh well, that's the plan, so let's just 
+stick to it. I do spend bitcoin here and there directly for goods and services, but that never feels nasty at all. 
+Quite the opposite, it feels great.
+
+I have actually stumbled across many discussions on HODL vs Spend and replace during the past month. I am actually 
+kind of dissappointed that there's any kind of debate. I am strongly in the camp that believes that spending 
+bitcoin on goods and services is the right thing to do (assuming you have some way to replace the lost sats by 
+exchanging fiat for them). It makes me sad to see people propose that we should only spend our fiat. I see a lot of 
+ignorance and short-sightedness in that idea. 
+
+In my opinion, the true wealth that Bitcoin will bring to us won't be in the form of being valued at millions and 
+gazillions of $. That might happen, indeed, but it's not the whole point of Bitcoin. The point of Bitcoin is to 
+have a decentralized, permissionless, borderless, dilution-proof, interoperable open money. And why would we want 
+to have such a money? So that truly free trade can happen. Trade across all the world without the intervention of 
+regulators, governments and greedy middle-men that act no value and oppress free, working people. Peer to peer, 
+untaxed and uncensored. Can you even picture how much value society would unlock if we stopped being taxed and 
+regulated on every economic transaction we made? Have you ever ran the numbers on how much money would you have at 
+the end of the year if not every tiny bit of your economic life had leeches sucking you dry? 
+
+It bothers me how people can even imagine that it's not in their best interest to start spending their bitcoin in 
+trade. We need to create a decentralized, permissionless, borderless, dilutionproof, interoperable _economy_ if we 
+are to reap the true benefits of bitcoin. How are we going to enjoy our stacks in the future if there is literally 
+nothing that can be bought with it?
+
+What will you do if authoritarian CBDCs are deployed at the speed of light, and all on and off ramps between Fiat 
+and Bitcoin get shut? I hope there is a strong free market (black, as it's usually called) by then, because 
+otherwise, I'm genuinely scared that we might be fucked.
+
+If you are reading, I challenge you: this month, find somewhere where you can spend some sats and do it. It doesn't 
+have to be anything important or expensive. Just make sure it's truly peer to peer. Pay somebody straight for him 
+to provide something straight to you. 
+
+Thank you for reading and see you around next month.
+
+---
+
+## Previous episodes
+
+- Episode 1: [https://stacker.news/items/47539](https://stacker.news/items/47539)
+- Episode 2: [https://stacker.news/items/61708](https://stacker.news/items/61708)
+- Episode 3: [https://stacker.news/items/71794](https://stacker.news/items/71794)
+- Episode 4: [https://stacker.news/items/83670](https://stacker.news/items/83670)
+- Episode 5: [https://stacker.news/items/98216](https://stacker.news/items/98216)
+- Episode 6: [https://stacker.news/items/111818](https://stacker.news/items/111818)
+- Episode 7: [https://stacker.news/items/124601](https://stacker.news/items/124601)
+- Episode 8: [https://stacker.news/items/140816](https://stacker.news/items/140816)
+- Episode 9: [https://stacker.news/items/154229](https://stacker.news/items/154229)
+