There were plenty of people who were even better at educating; there were just less people listening.
I also had the impression that his conviction was already strong back then. Extraordinary, since there was almost no mainstream #Bitcoin Education or people like nostr:nprofile1qqs2xs05tluhtr6hpgsmqqxp04898gayjlyrjlexcrndv8j6el784xqtg3trx, nostr:nprofile1qqsgydql3q4ka27d9wnlrmus4tvkrnc8ftc4h8h5fgyln54gl0a7dgstw3r3l or nostr:nprofile1qqsvf646uxlreajhhsv9tms9u6w7nuzeedaqty38z69cpwyhv89ufcqngza3a around yet.
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Who? Tell me a few to look up.
Go to the bitcoin talk forum and sort by post date in ascending order. The signs were there; but I agree, the platform was not as large as it is today.
Of course there were posts, if you read them today, you see people understood certain things back then already. Satoshi himself already predicted several developments in the future like large scale
Mining Business. But my thesis is that there was almost nobody who both got it AND was able to explain that to Joe Average. Mainstreet people that were not into tech or cypherpunk stuff. Ok, Andreas Antonopolous was one but apart from that?