it took me 3 people over ~5 years to get any bitcoin. i laughed at all 3 until finally i decided to prove one of them wrong by buying a little bit so i could show them how much better off they would have been when it went to 0.
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Yeah, it's the same with any evangelism. It tends to add up, like a faucet dripping a new concept into someone's brain, often taking years. Each evangelist feels like they failed and the last one feels like a miracle worker, but they were actually all successful.
I knew about Bitcoin, from the very beginning, and kept hearing about it and reading about it, but I needed to hear it dozens of times, before I said, Fuck it, I'm buying some.
I'm glad, now, that they didn't give up on me.
That's probably why there are so many Christians (and Muslims) in the Bitcoin "space". We are used to repeating the same message and trying to lead by example, forever.
We understand the cummulative effect of evangelism. Jesus only needed 12. Bitcoin started out with even fewer. And they just kept getting up in front of nearly-empty rooms and repeating themselves. Over and over and over...