When I saw the sausage made at a company minting it's own NFT's and token. I understood at that point that Bitcoin is the only digitally scarce asset with biggest network effect. To further that was the scaling debate and that you'd be free to fork off, but there's no central figure. Most shitcoins have a board and central authority with a roadmap etc. Very different from bitcoin.

I dismissed any projects that were based on anything other than a fixed supply, proof of work, and blockchain size/block size/noderunning accessibility that even the average pleb could set up with basic hardware and support the network. All in on BTC from day 1. I just wish day 1 was five years earlier lol.

I had been looking for a savings vehicle that couldn’t be debased ever since I first read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” in 2001. The whitepaper, exposure to the teachings of Ron Paul through the 2000’s, and Saif’s book sealed the deal.

For me, it was Saylor’s interview with Breedlove on the What is Money podcast. When my paradigm shifted to money being a form of stored energy and understanding the inevitable upcoming instruments to borrow indefinitely against a Sat stack, I sold my shitcoins.

Class of 2020, here.

It was in 2022. I was listening a lot to nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n , nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx , Robert Breedlove, doing a lot of research and it just all came together.

Nearly losing everything at Celsius was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back.

The Price of Tomorrow by Jeff Booth.

Always have been. Bitcoin just checks all the boxes. That’s not to say I didn’t learn about a few shitcoins. I got taken by a couple Ponzi schemes in my early 20s and shitcoinery was just obvious to me. I’ve never spent my dollars on any coin other than bitcoin.

For me it was different. I was a BTC maxi from 2010 to 2016. Then I discovered Monero.

No way I will ever go back to, not to speak of all in Bitcoin.

Lightning got my attention. Taproot made me realize bitcoin is not static, but not too flexible, and fully under meritocratic control of the self interested free market.