Plebs in India.

If you're reading this, keep in mind the enormity of the task that lies ahead of us.

Each one of you has seen the possibilities that the Bitcoin protocol enables.

The nodes you run, the PR's you open that gets accepted by the community, the asics you hash with are in agreement with a set of consensus rules that lets you be a part of the network. That is the only thing that matters.

You have your own personal incentives that drive your contributions toward the protocol. You have your own reasons for wanting this network to be used by the general populace of the country.

It might be to let you use your stack to buy goods and services anywhere in the country. Maybe you want to remit money to multiple countries with instant finality and negligible transaction fee. Or it could be that you want exit liquidity to sell to at a higher price. More ambitious is to want the country to break free of the shackles that the western monetary and financial system enslaves us with. Or you think religion and caste based tensions are on the rise and you want financial censorship to be made difficult. Maybe privacy isn't being cared about in this country and you want to build tools that will let people preserve their personal privacy and thereby their individual sovereignty.

It doesn't matter. Bitcoin will be different things to different people. Your own agenda about what Bitcoin should be will not be accepted by everyone else.

The institutions that keep our wheels running are enormous. The legacy of our culture is near unmatched in its richness and diversity. The potential for how powerful this country and its leaders can become is truly humbling.

To get Bitcoin to be adopted in such a country is no small task. You need to be extremely articulate, based, knowledgeable and sharp to achieve anything of substance here. Convictions cannot waver.

Western narratives will not work here because the the guy at the tea shop you go to to put a smoke and have tea does not care what Janet Yellen says or what happens at the FMOC meeting. He cares that his business runs smoothly and he's able to provide for his family.

Your job is to explain to people around you in very simple and digestable language what Bitcoin is and can be. And the ways that it can solve their problems.

Or build things that lets them access the network and use it to make their lives better.

And let them know without fail what the consensus rules are and how protocol governance works.

The market will indeed take care of the rest.