Great post,Trey! Agree with almost all you points. Personally, I don’t think the argument that #Bitcoin separates money from the state is an appealing one for the middle of the bell curve folks. Whenever I bring this up with friends or family, they say that sounds paranoid. I know the Fed is a flawed institution, but no serious person believes that government is actively trying to keep people poor by inflating the currency.

What is more compelling, I think, is that Bitcoin is a far superior way of transferring value between parties than our current system of trusting third-party intermediaries or using paper currency. In other words, just what Satoshi talks about in the white paper. At the end of the day, it is just a protocol for doing exactly that in a way that is irreversible so long as attackers don’t control 51% of the hash rate.

You are 100% correct that we need to educate people more on the fundamentals (I use email and SMTP as an example, and that seems to resonate), and get rid of all this weird lifestyle stuff that fundamentally has nothing to do with what #Bitcoin actually is.

Cheers and thank you!