To truly get Bitcoin's value proposition, study economics first and technology second.
There are plenty of people that understand the technology of Bitcoin, but haven't bought. Much more important is an understanding of economics and the monetary properties of Bitcoin.
That's true with me, someone non-technical
As stated by Jordan Peterson is not that people see an object and infer meaning. Is the other way around. We see meaning and infer "object".[1]
When I listen to people that state that "Bitcoin has no value" they are literally blind to Bitcoin, thet watch but they cannot see, because to infer the existence of an object you first need to see meaning.
Bitcoin is a solution to a problem many don't think we have.
Untill people understands; 1st the problem we have and 2nd the characteristics of the tool needed to solve it, they are not going to see any meaning in Bitcoin, therefore they "won't see". For them there is literally nothing there.
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💯 the needs come before the how.
I’ve since I was a little child wondered about what money really is and I didn’t get any answers that really went to the bottom; for example, ”yes, gold is good money, but WHAT backs gold, WHY is it good money?”. And a couple of years ago I got some spare time and I discovered that people actually have taken these questions seriously and thought about them all the way down to the bare axioms. Money as a protocol, not a thing (even though things can function as parts of the protocol, leaving the protocol partially functional). After realising this bitcoin becomes the ultimate given (as money), at least for me.
