Bitcoin is for everyone, just like hammers, but that doesn't mean that everyone knows how to use a hammer. Some people may like to smash their dick with a hammer, and it is okay to make fun of their mental infirmity.
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Sometimes Bitcoin takes some research to get…and sometimes a hammer to the dick is needed to course correct.
Hyperbitcoinization will come about after billions of hammers to dicks.
LOL I dub this the Infinite Udi Theorem. Give me enough feckless wizards and enough hammers, and eventually you will get hyperbitcoinization.
I have watched what happened with Udi a million times in Bitcoin. I have been around since 2011 (and yeah I should have bought more lol) and early Bitcoinners came for the greatness of the idea, or maybe just to buy weed on Silk Road, or like me play poker on Seals with Clubs. And then they got suddenly rich, by, in all honesty, a total stroke of luck. This causes a strange sort of dissonance in humans. It differs based on someones personal biases and weaknesses. Some people go "hookers and blow" mode. Buy Lambos etc. Some get like Smaug the dragon and sit on their hoard looking down on all challengers.
And others need to construct a world in which THEY got rich thanks to their forward thinking wisdom, while the newer folks were just lucky. This is Udi (and was, for example Chris DeRose, if you remember him). These folks construct a "there goes the neighborhood" narrative and claim that Bitcoin used to be something that it no longer is, and that they are pointing the way back.
This is complete bullshit. They were lucky just like the people who came later. And Bitcoin is not anything people want it to be. It is not an exclusive club. It is not something that the "great wizards" can bend to their will.
And EVERY TIME one of these folks tries to do that they get the exact same thing Roger Ver got when he decided he wanted to remake Bitcoin in his own image.
Humiliated, and possibly even felted as we poker players call it.
I wish it was not necessarily so. But I enjoy the show regardless.
This is good insight. I have been around since 2013, and you are spot in about Roger and Chris. Roger was just a midwit liberty dork with crazy person energy. He absolutely misunderstood his aimless flailing around for well-calculated research. Chris somehow shifted from chaotic good to chaotic neutral, and started giving the scammers platforms (Daniel Krawicz, Richard Heart). Sometimes I worry I don't "get" bitcoin well enough, but I think that will be fine as long as I don't hurt people financially by promoting or selking worthless forks, tokens, or jpegs.