As someone who was born dirt poor, I can say the process was not that complicated.

I started working at a young age, got myself educated, built a career that paid well and was portable, avoided materialism, chose a like minded spouse, chose rural over urban living, sought self reliance wherever possible, and learned to seek out and correct the things I was wrong about. In this way, #Bitcoin was sort of inevitable for me.

This is not about patting myself on the back though for being “special”. Quite the opposite. The truth is that I was very lucky to be born healthy, not get (very) sick yet, and grow up in a place where war and famine was not the norm and my choices above were in fact possible. That said, I see many many many other people who could live like me if they so desired but instead keep making the same mistakes over and over and over again. Or they have fallen for one or more of the many traps set out for us by the legacy financial system. For that though, you’ll have to check out some of my other posts.