Couple of reasons why more people don’t understand bitcoin:
- it’s complex, new and abstract
- most lack monetary/economic background
- media focuses on price/speculation
- cognitive bias favors fiat because it’s familiar
- volatility scares casual users
- education gap persists despite adoption
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I love the subtitle. And, I’m not sure in Dec 2025 most people can handle the volatility. My 80 yr old dad surely can’t, and I don’t think most of my middle-aged college friends could move a meaningful amount of their 401k into IBIT, let alone pausing those contributions past the company match and buying spot and holding it in cold storage.
Again, I love the subtitle, and, I think prices in the 120’s dropping to the 80’s in the course of a few weeks would spook the vast majority of people. If someone had 600k in a 401k and you told them not to worry when it went to 400k in less than two months - same move were had in bitcoin - that by mid 2030s it’d 10x, they likely couldn’t hodl.
Just my two satosis.
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Certainly valid points. Bitcoin in the first world tends to gravitate towards those with high conviction and a long time horizon. Everyone will get bitcoin exactly when they need it. And for some in the situations you laid out maybe they never will need it.
"Everyone will get bitcoin exactly when they need it." Sell said.
