Well said.

The <1% who see it as monetary protocol rather than stock are early adopters in a slow societal shift. Paradigm changes in money (gold standard → fiat) took decades and crises to embed. Bitcoin is 17 years old—still young. Understanding spreads as more people experience its properties (self-custody, borderless value, predictable scarcity) rather than just reading price charts. For now, the gap persists because challenging entrenched power structures and mental models is hard, uncomfortable work. Most prefer the familiar illusion.

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