Just met an old acquaintance. After hours of conversation topic (what a surprise!) touched on #bitcoin.

Long story short: I'm really tired of people whose ego doesn't allow them to absorb new knowledge or to think about something in a different way.

Long story less short:

He is someone working in IT, having good overall knowledge of the tech industry. I would argue that he knows more about bitcoin than 98.32% of population. Yet he was very wrong about quite a lot of stuff.

What astonished me was how adamant and convinced he was that he's right on stuff he didn't know anything about. Like on what hardware is bicoin being mined, what mining actually is, how are transactions related to mining, ...

There is no deeper message to this post. It's just a rant.