Last night at the bar my friend asked me why I had never told him about bitcoin?
I was like I’ve told you every time I’ve seen you for the last 10 years. Probably 100 times at least.
“No you didn’t bro, I would remember that”
lol why are they like this?
You sure you didn't meet MY friend? 😂
Falling on deaf ears is an understatement, happens to the best of us HODL 🤘
The Nile is not just a river in Egypt…….
Is it possible that you didn't? That sounds unreal, I feel like you would be known as the bitcoin guy in your friend group.
We are the "Bitcoin podcasters" in our real-life community and everyone says things like "oh if I only knew about it a few years ago" as if we hadn't launched a podcast specifically for them and announced it in our wedding invitations 😂
That's insanity. Do you think it's their way of avoiding responsibility? "Oh well I didn't know" rather than "yeah I heard but I was too stupid/ lazy to study it".
I hate to say it because I love these people so much... But I think they can't believe that I was smarter than them to figure out something before they could. And they don't want to learn from me. They want to learn from mainstream sources they've deferred their own authority to so they don't have the burden of thinking for themselves. So subconsciously they don't even register what I'm trying to do for them.
The biggest bummer of this is that I only understood Bitcoin because my husband is not a normie. So our podcast tried to be a way to translate Bitcoin education for the general audience. We have a global audience today but maybe just a handful of our own community who listens. And it took years to get them to.
For my own peace of mind I gotta keep trying because I want everyone to win. I love these people.
You and your husband are amazing, and yes please keep going!!
It just blows my mind that people wouldn't look in themselves and ask " where am I wrong, how can I learn". I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around it. But it's like Sodom and Gomorrah, some people don't wanna be saved
Thank you! If orange pilling were easy Bitcoin would already have majority adoption. The burden of being so early 🙌🏽
Luckily Bitcoin adoption is inevitable and so many other external factors get people's attention and they eventually come to us and we set them up with a bitkey. No hard feelings. We're full service over here. 😂
I wrote a basic book for noobs so I could just hand it to them and be done with it. Published it and everything. Just to be able to hand it to them. Knowing it runs through the basics and links them to a wealth of great in-depth info lets me not have to keep on about. Let’s me just enjoy myself after giving it to them.
In fact this just happened today. A buddy asked me by text if and where I buy gold. I laughed, and mailed him a copy of my book.
They hear what they want
The Matrix is choking them
Denial is real
#haiku
These are the type of people that never take responsibility and accountability for their own actions. Can’t help them much unfortunately
The average human attention span is 8.23 seconds and shrinking. A goldfish is 9 seconds. If there's no immediate feedback on a decision, the avg person has no interest and will discard the info.
*sigh*
I'd say fiat brain, but in reality they just refuse new things. Next time just tell him the truth. He's a tech laggard
How far are we into the early adopters phase. Or are we still in the innovators phase? I mean how many people truly know what they’re holding and have it in cold storage?
I would argue that we're still quite to the left. Even when you consider BIPs, there's still a lot of innovation happening. Probably one of the best examples might be the early adopting businesses using nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg
Glad it isn’t just my friends. Maybe it is the bars fault, as that is where I usually see my friends 😂
😂 I’ve had the exact same experience 😂
Too painful to admit they slept on the best investment in human history.
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Haha, I know that feeling.
Because they lack the ability to hold themselves accountable.
tell him - "we are so early, go ahead"
If I fain amnesia, I don’t have to acknowledge I rejected the most sincere and heart felt offer of support I’ve ever received. Also see cognitive dissonance. 🫡🙌
I have a friend like this as well. Hint: they aren’t listening. NPC finder
it's a trauma. so the mind protect from hurting memories 😅
My brother said same to me. They just don’t hear it. I guess everyone just gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve.
because they don't actually hear you. they tune you out. they'll acknowledge you while you talk about it but it doesn't register.
it's a #wall and the wall is a self erected self to protect a nonexistent self
it's the same wall that Bodhidharma sat in front of, the same wall i sit in front of when i practice Zazen.
It's just that some people believe in their wall.
luv ya!
👍🤙🫀
Unfortunatelly, most of our friends are NPCs.
Because then they have to admit they were wrong.
Once per year is not enough
🤷♂️
Cause it's not their fault.
Oh man… 😂
Your buddy’s got selective memory—classic! I’ve been preaching Bitcoin for a decade, and some folks still act like it’s news. They’ll wake up when the price hits the moon, begging for the “secret” I’ve been shouting about forever.
They are to upset that they didn't see it first. It takes a special kind of person to admit they are wrong. I try to be special at least once a day.
the problem is not listening
“First they mock you…” progression needs an “Then they accuse you of keeping it secret from them” edit.
Fist they ignore you
Then they laugh at you
Then they pretend you never told them about it
Then you become a mirror that reflects back their failures
Then they don’t like being around you
Then they accuse you of “changing”
Then they talk shit behind your back
Then they fight you
Then you win
The “Why didn’t you tell me about this?” is strong signal for where we are on mainstream awareness.
It’s the 5 stages of grief about not having bought bitcoin earlier.
Stage 1 - Denying having heard about it / ignoring it / dismissing it
Stage 2 - Being angry at yourself for having missed it
Stage 3 - Bargaining by buying shitcoins to „catch up“
Stage 4 - Being depressed cause you got rekt shitcoining
Stage 5 - Accepting its bitcoin only
I swear if a friend or family ever says some shit like that me I lm gonna knock the shit out of them!
Pretty sure most people I know roll their eyes when I talk about it.
Lol can't take the L bro! You can ignore the L, but you can't ignore the consequences of not taking the L
Another interesting thing is that of the 4 guys at the bar everyone knew the price of bitcoin without being told.
They all knew it was around 100k per coin.
100k was a big psychological milestone for normies.
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Because the ability to acknowledge oneself as the reason for failure and suffering is a rare.
When he replies, "No, you didn't..." that's an implicit articulation of the lie, "I know best" which is one of the beliefs a person holds when they struggle with pride or arrogance, which is akin to or overlaps closely with the belief, "I am God."
At the same time, he's also implicitly accusing you of lying to him about having not told him for ten years about Bitcoin, even though you did, which means he doesn't trust you. But since you are trustworthy, it means he had fundamental trust issues with himself and/or others that he's projecting into you which likely trace back to family of origin issues with his father or someone close to him who violated his trust, which means he had unresolved personal issues he needs to sort out.
Healthy and functional people choose through humility to trust certain trustworthy people more than they trust themselves . But that you've hung out at least one hundred times over the last ten years, but he still doesn't trust you seemingly, speaks to the kind of relationship he has with you which indicates he's likely a taker, not a giver or reciprocator in the relationship.
In addition, if he literally can't remember you telling him about Bitcoin, it indicates memory impairment which could point to a pot addiction, since pot can impair the memory.
Or, he's literally just really, really stupid.
we need a time-stamp bar-talk app on nostr
Did you tell then they are still so early and we have another 1000X to go to 100M?
They can start stacking now and have their lives completely changed for the better in 10 years
For them it's true they don't remember bc everytime we started mentioning their little brains would automatically disconnect bc they just didn't care. Another similar that i get is "why didn't you told me harder or just forced me?" 😂
“But like why didn’t you try harder??”
Selective hearing is a real phenomenon
You just described a cousin of mine.
Smh
now that’s retarded 😆
Loser mentality 🥶
salty and want to blame someone other than themselves.
Normies are literally the worst.
Sounds like a bull market indicator to me 🤤
Haha, that's too funny! 😂 Some people just forget the good stuff! Don’t worry, you can always school him on it again. Better late than never, right? 🚀💰 #BitcoinBuddies
Coping mechanism.
There’s an ancient saying that the philosopher is never heard in his own village and the doctor’s advice is never accepted by his own family.
Timing is important. Did you tell him at the start of the bar visits, or toward the end?
Wait, you don't Open Time Stamps your text messages with friends family and (especially) enemies so you can verify? Dave Chappell hinted at this with his home stenographer but now we don't need trusted third parties to rub shit in people's faces.
Because they’re feckin’ eejots
He doesn't remember because at the time he had his fingers stuck in his ears and was saying "na na na na I'm not listening"
Everytime you mentioned bitcoin to them, it was in the wrong environment and situation for a serious discussion about their financial future
It sucks, because it's the only time available to mention bitcoin too them
