I too can relate. I had a friend beg me to come with him to buy at the btc atm downtown in 2011. I told him nah it’s all fake. Few years later, was about to create a mt. Gox acct but I didn’t want to send them a picture of my passport. Then Gox got hacked. Dodging the Mt. Gox blow up made me follow btc much more closely and that’s really how I got sucked in. But yes I did miss opportunities to buy in 2011 and late-ish 2013. Would have probably lost them all anyway not understanding the value of what I held.
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Yeah 100% with ya there. Even today we are ahead of 99% of the world population just by having this conversation so its all relative. But crazy to think there’s friends of mine out there now who I have pushed so hard to learn and still don’t care. Wish i had that years ago.
It will humble everyone. 🤙🏻
Your friends will eventually pay the price of admission they deserve. As we all did. But yes, we are still so incredibly early.
with the addictiveness of zapping people on nostr, its feeling like we might see a shift forward in adoption and usage. Lightning is going to make btc ubiquitous in peoples lives. And they won’t even realize it.
💯. 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.