This is your brain on normie
⚡️🤨 NEW - UK economist Gary Stevenson claims Satoshi is secretly selling BTC to fund a global Bitcoin PR campaign.
https://blossom.primal.net/3c7a348d60b383fd654c3a3f8707da05be3f476e118d56476f334985b04a4fb5.mp4
Discussion
This isn't such a dumb argument IMO. Bitcoin just appears "to good to be true" so it seems like a scam, especially to those who've seen many scams before. The sad thing is that this causes people to write off Bitcoin as a scam prematurely, and to not put in the 100 hours of research needed to understand its value.
Takes like 1 hour to understand it
Not in any kind of depth. If you can be convinced in one hour, you can be fudded in another hour
Is that how it works?
In my view, yes. There are critical concepts to understand, like proof of work, decentralization, immutability, cryptographic security. Just the concepts themselves are not easy, but if you want to learn in some detail how each of these work, that's an easy 20 hours work each. If you don't do this research, you'll be fudded by someone who says "it's not decentralized, there are two mining pools who control the majority of the hashrate", or "transactions won't be secure when quantum computers get here", or "the government could just mine all the blocks", etc. If you don't have that deep understanding, you're just going based on faith/vibe, and you will be part of the herd running for the exits when some panic sets in.