Meet an OG #Bitcoin miner from back in the Mt. Gox days. This dude's talking about Bitcoin like he's living in 2025, not back when it all started! https://video.nostr.build/7deffb2ec8495bda972f386a1e75a666bb58320ad899ea0f42410f95c83875a7.mp4
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I also had the impression that his conviction was already strong back then. Extraordinary, since there was almost no mainstream #Bitcoin Education or people like nostr:nprofile1qqs2xs05tluhtr6hpgsmqqxp04898gayjlyrjlexcrndv8j6el784xqtg3trx, nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgstw3r3l or nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqngza3a around yet.
There were plenty of people who were even better at educating; there were just less people listening.
Who? Tell me a few to look up.
Go to the bitcoin talk forum and sort by post date in ascending order. The signs were there; but I agree, the platform was not as large as it is today.
Of course there were posts, if you read them today, you see people understood certain things back then already. Satoshi himself already predicted several developments in the future like large scale
Mining Business. But my thesis is that there was almost nobody who both got it AND was able to explain that to Joe Average. Mainstreet people that were not into tech or cypherpunk stuff. Ok, Andreas Antonopolous was one but apart from that?
Daniel Moross from The Rise and Rise of Bitcoin documentary, right?
Thats awesome!
I occassionally fall into the trap of ‘what if I’d found bitcoin earlier’ (class of 2020), but I wouldn’t have been like that. I’d have had dollar signs in my eyes, legit needed the money, and sold most or all of it. Far harder to live with that regret, than to know I came in when I was ready to just stay humble and stack sats. Still pretty early.