I don't know what companies are thinking or saying. I never waste my time on something like that. I just observe reality and talk about facts. That's why I am also silent on your fantasies.
Don't you know that thousands of companies around the world already accepts Bitcoin as a payment? The company I work for included.
Don't you know that there are already several Bitcoin ETF's in many different stock exchanges around the world? And local financial regulators have approved those all?
Don't do this for your mental health. Don't lie to yourself that something you see in the news so much does not exist at all. You might end up hurting yourself or the others one day when you can't take it anymore.
Like I said. I talk about facts. So factually, there are thousands of companies around the world that participate in Satoshi's scheme and give their existing things for free just because the Satoshi's system will write fake numbers next to their addresses in the system. If, like you say, the companies think or say they are using Bitcoin, that's factually incorrect given not s single person on Earth has ever saw Bitcoin. Bitcoin is a non-existent thing. Of course, you can still think and talk about bitcoin. Like you can talk about Zeus, flying spaghetti monster, unicorn, or whatever. But those are all fictional characters. And if you insist talking they are real that fits the definition of a delusional behavior. Majority around the world are ignorant, and they believe false narrative on bitcoin's existence. So they aren't behaving delusionally. They are just ignorant. However, in this topic I have proved to you that bitcoin doesn't exist, so if you insist on talking that bitcoin exists and ignore all the empirical evidence I gave you, that's delusional behavior.
But I did not sell my address in the system. I still own the address.
To say "nothing" cannot be factually correct, because logic dictates that I obviously sold something. I owned "something" that, after the sale, I no longer own. I ask you again, what did I sell?
You asked what you own. You own an address. Like everyone that installed a wallet application. That's all that you own. Now, whatever playing with the numbers the system performs around your address doesn't make you an owner of something. For example, coins. Coins are tangible items. Like gold ones. You don't own coins. Neither bit-coins nor b-coins. Anyone who has ever told you that you own coins is simply lying or is ignorant. Also you don't own tokens or electronic cash. Those are liability type of money - an entity is liable to redeem them. So, anyone who has ever told you that you own tokens or electronic cash is also lying or is ignorant. That what you have next to your address is a fake number. Fake quantity. Quantity of a thing that doesn't exist. Letters B, T, C in your wallet are fake name. Name of a thing that doesn't exist. Flying spaghetti monster is also the name of a thing that doesn't exist. You can give names to non-existent or fictional things. That's what your wallet application does.
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Of course, you own an address in the system. Just like you own an email address.
It's not the same though. The main difference is digital scarcity. Bitcoins are digitally scarce. Emails are not. That's partly why bitcoins are valuable and emails are not.
I'll give you an example of digital scarcity that you might understand better.
Think about Google. They are basically a digital marketing company. They sell ads to people and companies. But what are they actually selling?, the first result of the list that is returned when you're looking for something.
That's digital scarcity. There can only be one top result when you search for something at google. Result number 203 is not as valuable as result 5, and the first result is the most valuable. They're all digital things that Google can sell to people, with the top result being the most scarce, and the most valuable.
Now, Google top result shows digital scarcity, just like Bitcoin. But Google results are centralized. Bitcoin is decentralized, but that's another story.
The point is that I'm sure you now understand that digital scarcity exists and it's valuable. Bitcoin has digital scarcity.
Only the existing things can be scarce. Playing with the numbers don't make things pop into existence.