Agreed, it should be, but mostly people focus on the fewer down lines, not the many more up lines.

I'm not sure why?

Also agreed, indifference is also the enemy.

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Itโ€™s also because we now have the Internet telling us how bad bitcoin is ๐Ÿ˜…

That's true!

Oh, the irony ๐Ÿ˜‚

Itโ€™s a constant battle. I love asking myself the very general question/s of โ€œHow and why does something become mainstream in use?โ€ Itโ€™s get quite deep after a while ๐Ÿ˜

Are you using your Blackberry to write your notes down?

Yes and with fat thumbs ๐Ÿคฃ

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It is pretty amazing: Of my friends who are still skeptical about Bitcoin (which is almost all of them), I don't think I've ever heard "hey, I saw Bitcoin's on the rise again!" All I get is "didn't Bitcoin just crash to like 50k?"... and I'm like "Dude, you do realize that the last conversation we had about Bitcoin was when you pointed out a 'crash' to like 20k? I'm looking forward to you telling me about the next 'crash' to 150k."

I stopped that line of attack by responding

"No, it's still up from $625 a coin" ๐Ÿ˜‚

โ€œItโ€™s too expensiveโ€ is the most common one now amongst my friends. ๐Ÿ™„

Oh no, letโ€™s not go back to BIP 177 ๐Ÿ˜‚

๐Ÿ‘€๐Ÿ˜…

I actually show them a little side pot. Said I bought at ยฃ62k two months ago and itโ€™s now ยฃ78k, then I ask them if their fiat savings account did better? Sometimes works ๐Ÿ˜…

Nice ๐Ÿค™

Your response is WAY better.

... especially since my response proves entirely ineffective when they can never seem to remember our previous conversations.

My neighbour playfully ridiculed me back in 2017 when my coins had dropped from $4K to $2K, he hadn't remembered that I'd bought most of them at $625, but I didn't say anything back then.

These days we have a mutual neighbour who is in her late 70's. She is constantly fascinated by Bitcoin and asks me questions all the time.

He doesn't enjoy listening in.

I think it's only hubris that is preventing him buying now.

He's a nice guy and we get on well, but I tend to avoid discussing Bitcoin with him these days.