What Are the Benefits of Bitcoin?

Bitcoin (BTC) is one of the most valuable cryptocurrencies on the market and some BTC holders can call themselves BTC millionaires or billionaires (as measured in U.S. Dollars).

But what can you do with it? What are the benefits of holding Bitcoin?

In this article we’ll explore the benefits of bitcoin. Let’s dive in and see how Bitcoin can help you learn passive interest income to increase your wealth, get loans against bitcoin to preserve your assets, spend bitcoin to keep the effects of inflation at bay.

Earn Passive Interest Income — Get Richer

The path to financial independence is one of earning passive income on assets you own. (Like getting rental income on a property you’ve bought.) The [Abra Interest Account](https://www.abra.com/earn/) pays daily compounded interest on many cryptocurrencies and USD stablecoin deposits.

As of this writing, these include Bitcoin (BTC), Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Cardano (ADA), Ethereum (ETH), Litecoin (LTC), Paxos (PAX), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Tether (USDT), TrueUSD (TUSD), and USD Coin (USDC).

Get Loans Against Bitcoin — Preserve Assets

When your expenditures exceed your income you could liquidate some assets to raise some spending money. A better way, that preserves your precious cryptocurrencies, is to borrow against them. The [Abra Borrow](https://www.abra.com/borrow/) program provides loans using your Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings as collateral. The interest rate on the loan is calculated based on the loan-to-value ratio (the more collateral, the lower the interest rate) and on the loan term (the shorter the loan, the lower the interest rate).

Spend Bitcoin — Keep Inflation at Bay

Because the total quantity of Bitcoin has been fixed from the beginning, it has great potential to be a store of value. This hedge against inflation — where a money supply is not limited — is a powerful selling point of Bitcoin. Rather than selling Bitcoin for a local fiat currency and then spending it, the following retailers accept Bitcoin. (Some accept it directly, others are available through a middle service. Some also generate loyalty rewards.)

NOTE: I have a section here that explains a littlebit more about the middle services, like Lolli, and a lot more retailers. So if you like this format I’ll add them in. (I had each with some descriptive prose, but the article got sooooo long.)

Retailer	Method	Products
Baskin Robbins	Spedn	ice cream
CVS	Lolli	drug store
Gamestop	Spedn	video games
Godaddy	Lolli	domain name registrar
Home Depot	Flexa’s in-store checkout systems	hardware
Jamba Juice	Spedn	smoothies
Jet	Lolli	consumer goods
Macy’s	Lolli	consumer goods
Microsoft	directly	online Xbox store
Namecheap	directly	domain name registrar
NewEgg	directly	computer hardware
Overstock	directly	household goods & services
Regal Cinemas	Spedn	movie house
Starbucks	Bakkt at the register	coffee, tea
Walmart	Lolli	drug store
Whole Foods	Spedn	groceries

Conclusion 

Bitcoin’s advantage is how widely it’s accepted as an alternate currency, and it how it can help your financial future by earning passive interest, use as collateral for loans, and be spent directly for many goods and services.

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