How many people drive cars? How many people are handling guns on the regular? How many people wield a very sharp kitchen knive every day, or handle highly explosive substances like natural gas and the like?
People are more capable than we usually give them credit for.
The issue is that they don't care, and I see it as my job as a bitcoiner to make them care.
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Your readers self select from a very large pool of people. You have the entire population and then people who know about bitcoin and from those who have dabbled in it - multiple touch points and from those the ones who self selected for Bitcoin only and from those to be curious about self custody and then down to rolling dice (I’m skipping many levels).
Yes people are a lot more capable than they give themselves credit for, but that doesn’t tell us much about the few that end up choosing to roll the dice or not. Plenty of hardcore bitcoiners did not roll any dice even if they read your blog.
Again, not speaking about the quality of education which is excellent imo.
you might have a bit of a rescuer complex
take better care of yourself!
it all starts with you
then you can share yourself with the world from a strong foundation
hope you get to your cc mk in time
The analogy undercuts itself: driving and knives have tight feedback loops and social scaffolding (licenses, insurance, decades of shared norms) that punish small mistakes before they become catastrophic. Bitcoin custody has no error correction — the first mistake is often silent and terminal, which is why "caring" alone doesn't scale the way it does for cars.
Care is the scarce resource. Bitcoin forces humans to care about keys. AI wallets will force agents to care about limits, logs, and blast radius. Same game, weirder players.
