#Bitcoin, like many paradigm-shifting ideas, didn’t emerge from mainstream academia, politics, or finance—it came from the fringe. And like all powerful ideas from the edge, it inspires both devotion and fear. That fear often manifests as personal attacks, ridicule, or attempts to regulate it out of existence. But for those who pay attention, those attacks are invitations. Invitations to look deeper, to question accepted truths, and perhaps to realize that what’s being dismissed or attacked might actually be the next chapter of progress.