So, family gatherings such as a holiday dinner are actually a bad time to get relatives to listen about Bitcoin. In my corner of the planet, there once was a craze for Axies - yes, I know, I know, Bitcoin != Axies/Crypto.

But even that recently soured, very badly. In my country, small and medium sized business people, got into that and even sold Axies on FB marketplace for hundreds of thousands of pesos. (Approx $2000 to $2500+). It was a country wide craze.

Then Axie fell.

A lot of people got hurt. To them, anything and everything "coin" or "token" was de facto "bad."

If Bitcoin was a virus, normies have since gotten their first, second and third doses of a vaccine.

In the Axie story, selling the pen, was the idea that "I can make a lot of money" out of an Axie. But to get Axie, I have to exchange and get ETH. To get ETH, I have to get BTC to exchange. Thus fueling the demand. People who wanted Axies, didn't really care about BTC. They cared about "Axie price go up".

In retrospect, I think BTC is soon running out of pens to sell.

Remember, the first pen was the Silk Road and Mt.Gox era.

The second pen, was ICO craze of 2017-2018

Normies, who don't like to figure things out, who have been burned by the other defective pens, who have other concerns - ultimately, will not be open to going down that rabbit hole with you.

So, what keeps me in the Bitcoin space? It became my job. I feed my family with my work, I get paid in Bitcoin, I get to meet a community that strives to build me up and teach me. The more I learn, and the more I work, the more Bitcoin becomes meaningful to me.