I’ve been stacking and reading for 4 years. It’s feels like 50 years. I have a lot of respect for people who have been around much longer.
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The long you stay, the easier it gets. Many of the OGs have been in related areas for a long time before Bitcoin. It's new people who have never heard of sound money, Austrian economics or anything cypherpunk who I am most impresses with. They don't have the background to understand Bitcoin, but put in the work to figure it out anyway.