I actually believe it’s far more about curiosity and an ability to admit where you were once wrong than smarts. There is an extremely large audience of “smart” people making models and doing mental gymnastics to reinforce their “beliefs” about the world they live in while bitcoin is imposing new reality on their beliefs.
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The midcurve meme prevails again.
I think those traits are necessary for sure in addition to the aforementioned intelligence.
Some people overthink why Bitcoin might fail instead of thinking why it may succeed.
the Tao Te Ching describes a lot of these cognitive dark patterns in several of its chapters
You nailed it Jeff , this has nothing to do IQ. It has everything to do with curiosity and unfortunately the “education system “ has made the majority of people lost their curiosity. Issac Newton curiosity led to observation, testing and verification (gravitational theory) which changed the world.
It was not science per se , but his willingness to stay , curious and observe , test and verify.
Fortunately BITCOIN allows everyone who remains curious to do the same without being a scientist (OBSERVE , TEST and VERIFY) for yourself.