Something intangible like bitcoin is so foreign to humanity - inevitable we’d try to represent it with something physical. I get what you’re sayin tho. Good point

That interesting, I was kind of different in that I was sold on the tech, proof of work, and understood a fairly decent amount how it worked in 2017, but it wasn’t until 2020 and all the shenanigans that I really went don’t the rabbit hole and truly understand it from a social-politico-economical standpoint. I had a hard time explaining the “why” to people because they didn’t care about the “how” as much then. Now I know both including deeper parts like lightning, and taproot/ordinals.

PS-Faketoshi is still faketoshi and he hasn’t yet proven me, a judge or anyone otherwise. Suck it CSW!

Andreas doesn’t gets the credit he deserves. Dude was the foundation for me to get started digging deeper cause he forced me to ask myself the right questions which in turn kept the curiously going and began that journey. Dude is a legend.

Yeah as for the physical gold coin images, i remember it clear as day ‘if its a digital currency why am I seeing these physical bitcoins?!?’ And the whole Casascius coins thing made it even more confusing.

💯. I remember when the facebook like button took the world by storm and then in no time at all ‘likes’ were a legit thing everywhere. Zaps are so much better and have a more legit incentive structure as well so im optimistically hopeful.