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
@Daz B and
@Seb Bunney ...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.
