No one is going to appreciate the flexibility of mind, the ability to endure pain and the willingness to accept risk that caused you to get bitcoin early.
Instead they will treat you as a clown who got lucky. Someone with nothing to offer them. The same way they treated you when you first brought bitcoin to them.
And because of this attitude they will miss the rest of Bitcoins upside and the new things that Bitcoin enables.
Fuck em.
You’re not like them.
You were meant for more.
Fuck em is right. I'll just be laughing on the golf course more often than I already do.
This may be your experience as a public figure but it is not mine.
There are people in my life that have scoffed, listened, laughed and jeered.
Some have heeded and others have been needlessly stubborn and everything in between.
This is more of my personal experience.
Was talking to my cousin a few months ago when Bitcoin was in the $60k range, and he told me that he thought the moment to make money with Bitcoin had passed. I tried to change his mind, but he couldn’t overcome his view of Bitcoin, which was shaped by MSM.
I’m convinced most people will miss the gains from $100k-$1M because of what you said.
We were meant for more.
If they miss the rip up to $1m, the only way they will get bitcoin is if they receive it as pay. And then they will view it as they currently do fiat: something hard to get.
To a certain extent I agree as in life you get out what you put in. However, something about your post hasan feeling of giving up, on the idea of more adoption and of more upside.
That worries me as for Bitcoin to succeed we must still by definition be so early that there is still a huge amount of upside left, even for every 4 year cycle of this century. Otherwise what is there to first attract people?
And even worse, for adoption, if they will miss the new things that Bitcoin enables, then extremely few people will be using those things and they'll struggle to survive (business model, contributors, network effect etc).
Also I like you, but I only got in to Bitcoin in 2020. Since then I've been non stop buying, and even harder on every single dip (and with glee on the very lowest days). But although I've made good gains now, for a long time I wasn't even in the green. And your post is hard for me to swallow, getting in as apparently late as I did. I can't even imagine how I'd feel reading your post if I had just got in now, or even in 4 years' time. Probably like a fool who had been duped.
There can't be spite in Bitcoin, unless our success is so complete, our dominance over other forms of wealth so absolute, that we can just afford to say fuck you, and then even if that drives people away, still fuck em anyway because we're unassailable. But whilst that might be true even now from a tech and sovereignty perspective, it's certainly not true financially, and so it's way too early to be pulling up the proverbial ladder behind us.
And honestly, if you're feeling like that, you should maybe chill, enjoy your gains, take a moment to get a fresh perspective, and come back with a new angle. Because being harsh, what you said contributes nothing, and being kinder, it makes it sound like you need something to refresh your mind.
The salt is real. For example my friends all wish they could travel and not have a job, so now bitty finally feels real to them lol. It’s not like they can be like “how?” I’ve been telling them how lol they just didn’t believe
You might need to find new friends. The envy will never get better as bitcoin rips higher
I need more bitcoin friends irl. Will probably go to Vegas for btc conf even just to hang out
Same, can’t connect with normies. Already not a fan of small talk, so doubly painful talking to ppl these days.
I need to make it to an Austin meetup at some point
Yeah I feel like bitcoin friends are necessary especially after hanging out with a few. The only pre bitty friends that will survive are also high achievers . Have to cut out the fat
It’s all about shared experiences and worldview. I’ve been talking to this other bitcoiner in my company that lives in a different state and we get along better than most people I hang with irl
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This is food for soul. Thanks man.
Couldn’t agree more. Sacrificed some experiences, wore my clothing longer, rocked my old Toyota until the wheels fell off, so on and so forth.
But I’ll make it all up and then some on the backend while those people that looked down their noses are still squeaking by and trying to keep up appearances.
My ‘04 Toyota Camry just rolled over 316K. nostr:npub1uense4apn73tvh4u20tzlp6u72g4kdustzsm0k0sqy6yuwh5jxlsy97y76 vehicles have 150k and 250k miles on them. I mend clothes, reuse wherever possible. I still wear my track shirt from high school, and several things from college. Wastefulness grates on me, and that dovetails with stackin’.
Bitcoin psychology: Bitcoin pride/ bitcoin regret/ bitcoin envy/ bitcoin anxiety/ bitcoin faith/ bitcoin reverence
This is 2017 HODL. And I have missed it so much.
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