[Cryptography] Question about Bitcoin's security model

[John R. Levine]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2026, John Levine wrote:
[ after I bought two cups of coffee with bitcoins in 2013 for BTC that now are worth about $1000 ]

It appears that  <zeb at qtt.se> said:
> Imagine an oracle advising you to buy more and hodling instead of buying coffee.

I wouldn't have been able to buy my friend a copy of coffee in 2013,
and I might have an extra $1000 or even $2000 today 13 years later
which would make no difference at all to my overall situation. To use
a technical term, whoop-di-doodle.

R's,
John

PS: this doesn't seem to have much to do with cryptography