It took me about a month to go from fiat to shitcoiner to #Bitcoin er.

An acquaintance had suggested I go on Coinbase and get the free small $dollar amount reward of ETH they were giving away to new users. So I did. Once in, I used Coinbase's little rewards program where you watch a promo on a shitcoin, then are rewarded with a bit of it. Luna. Circle, Dot, etc.

The first time I used a blockchain explorer it was to look up an ETH transaction. (That was a powerful moment for me...when I first looked up a transaction ID on a public digital ledger...)

Looked at all the tokens on Coinbase and wondered what made them different from each other. Which would last? Or appreciate in value?

Bought and lost money on some small amount of Polkadot. Remember reading some guy's social media post about how cryptocurrencies are all narrative: you have to guess which narrative is going to be popular to figure out which coin would appreciate next. Sounded scammy. The pump-n-dump.

Then, no thanks to Coinbase, I encountered the OG. The only digital asset. It seemed different.

BTC.

I started wolfing down old #Bitcoin content from Andreas, then DerGigi, and so many others on YouTube, Reddit, podcasts, audio books and Twitter spaces. Found LookingGlassEducation.com, and paid attention to its messaging from nostr:npub1jqckepsld3xn98aeq7yg72g0yrqkz92vegkv6k3prfhkzu356v5qa6akee and nostr:npub1tm2048gau5mp8u5kfnxk68y7wzzpv5ggpuluqmhlhrtaldl49kzs7elpna ...Became captivated by the solid sanity of what I was learning about #Bitcoin.

Had an awakening.

And now I have a Bitcoin bookshelf.

I have had a low success rate at orange pilling, not for lack of trying.

But the couple of others who grasped it and began to understand it...I have a new bond with them.

I'm now aging into my quiet phase, as I've seen others do. A slow pull back from the initial excitment, from the conversations, the orange pilling, the social media wrangling. Getting back to minding my own business, thinking about opsec, and generational legacy.

I might even buy some Bitcoin myself one day, just in case it catches on.

IIRC, Primal wallet asks for some sort of name, and some sort of email, and accepts what it is given. A guy might chose to give it something less than accurate...

Yeah, swaps are disabled on the iOS version due to restrictions by Apple via their AppStore

Unfortunate.

How might digital scarcity be possible?

...

(If someone figures this out, we might be able to use the thing for money in this digital, internet-connected Information Age)

#Plebchain

#Bitcoin

🧡 nostr:npub1hea99yd4xt5tjx8jmjvpfz2g5v7nurdqw7ydwst0ww6vw520prnq6fg9v2 's Sparrow wallet

Do you understand what you have before you in #Bitcoin?

Let us give careful thought to the phenomenon of digital scarcity.

We are adjacent to and participating in the arrival of something profound.

#Plebchain

I guess the only question left is the timing of the fiat fall

Holy bananas #Bitcoin is so cool

And I've felt this way continuously since awakening to it

Class of 2021 🎓

#plebchain

Welcome

Thank you Jeff

I 🧡 #Bitcoin

https://www.deigratia.org/treatise-oresme/#VI

Great work Jack & crew

Awesome, thanks for these improvements guys

The back of a winged figure hovering in the air and looking down

Had been Muun, but a new user I was tutoring was immediately worried about the "network is congested, high fee" warning due to Runes.

Likely will be Aqua next time

#Bitcoin is a litmus test, a shibboleth.

It reveals a person's perspective on property rights.

👍

I might get some, just in case it catches on...

Can someone help me understand this Aqua Wallet error? I'm receiving it while attempting to send a lightening payment from an Aqua wallet to an Aqua wallet...

"error: swap to Boltz lightning nodes are

forbidden"

nostr:npub1excellx58e497gan6fcsdnseujkjm7ym5yp3m4rp0ud4j8ss39js2pn72a

nostr:npub1ajlrwgfj4yerhqf7ady03h7wmtk2qr3gs7h3sxcx83k05yld36sswpzx3q

#Bitcoin

#Plebchain