Way back when I was still in highschool I tried to convince so many people who were much smarter than me to study Bitcoin and start mining.
Y'all ever feel guilty for not being able to convince someone something for their own benefit?
This must be how religious people feel when they think their friends are damned to hell if they can't be converted.
Joining nostr has awoken a part of me I had forgotten about.
For the past decade I've largely ignored Bitcoin. I spent and lost everything I had, it is sad to think about the wasted potential, and even sadder to think about the following decade.
I started trading "crypto" again in 2022, an exchange was giving away the value of 10au$ in btc for new members upon signup with a referral so you whoever sent you the link also gets the same for each person.
I held that btc but didn't really add to it, the $10 I put into the exchange I used to buy some other crypto, can't even remember.
It went up, I swapped and diversified, repeated the process, something went up, swapped it to USDT, something went down swapped back.
Accumulated a couple thousand dollars worth of various cryptos.
Then 2023 started sending USDT to people in Gaza and continue to, over time I've put some here and there towards Bitcoin and held it with the idea of swapping it later, but never really thought deeply in that time about Bitcoin and the financial system.
Until I joined nostr.
Now I'm more obsessed with Bitcoin than I was in highschool, it's all come back to me.
The sats I stack now won't make me rich, I accept that, the opportunities the universe gave me were mostly wasted.
But I know Bitcoin is the future of money and I can provide a better future for myself and my offspring.
i have learnt from my mistakes. Wasting and losing what I had in highschool wasn't even the mistake, the mistake was feeling bad about myself and getting distracted by other things for so long.
Maybe one day I'll use some AI to read my nostr notes and write my autobiography or some shit I'm just typing as I think. It's like speaking out loud but you are left with a written record and I hate writing with pen and paper.
