Yeah I don't think the content was available back in 17/18 anyway or there was too much noise in the way to find it. I kind of knew the technology was a major innovation, but didn't really understand how exactly, so it was easy to get distracted by all the bullshit. Once you zero in on it though there's no getting distracted anymore. The laser eyes are a really apt meme for Bitcoiners 😂
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Andreas Antonopoulos really helped me sort it originally, but yeah, it was too amorphous to me then. Once I really understood the block size thing it clicked I think. That may have been my real hold up, the scaling.
That is still on my mind, but without a fair underlying distributed robust network it wouldn't matter. So I think that was my last realization. And now here, playing with all the lighting implementations and going back on chain and all that, has been a whole new perspective.