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I know what your saying.

I also like to go to the pub and have some pints and a couple whiskeys. Maybe I meet some interesting strangers & explore some thoughts.

That trip to the pub cost me $75 & a headache tomorrow. It's still fun to fk around sometimes.

The majority of my net worth is in my home. Then almost equally in 401k equities. Then Bitcoin.

Then everything else.

In 2017, if you timed things well, you could actually go from whatever you had in your wallet to $1m by hitting a streak of 10x flips. But you had to get lucky - no better than gambling. We called moonshot shitcoins “10xers” and everyone knew they were garbage. Bitcoin obviously moved too, all the way to 19k at peak in 2017 but it was not a move that made you a lot of money in a short period of time. But greed gets the best of people and the “last trade and I’m out “ is the one that punches you right in the face.

I won’t lie, 2017 was really fun from a gambling perspective.

I occasionally go to our local noob focused meetups and debunking ‘shitcoin X is better than Bitcoin’ narratives is a constant struggle.

I think the difference is that bitcoin IS the product, and far more people can at least tell you what bitcoin is for (even of they don't agree that it fulfills that purpose), and it's far easier to demonstrate that usage outside the cryptic casino (e.g. capital flight, wealth preservation in the global south, etc...). Ethereum is supposed to be a platform of products, except hardly anyone knows that, and so far, it's largely been used to speed run the last century of securities fraud.