Conviction requires a huge body of knowledge which can’t be acquired in a conversation. I imagine you and your brother have different interests, which lead you to different knowledge of the world. The conviction you feel is just the tip of the iceberg, though you don’t hold it consciously, most of your knowledge and experience will be hidden in your subconscious which forms your opinion and either makes you more or less able to digest the conclusion you’ve made. I’m not sure there’s a way around self motivation to learn about it and spend 100’s of hours learning about it. You can get people to follow along, agree and even buy some bitcoin by presenting the tip of the iceberg. But conviction requires a solid foundation which cannot be attained second hand. I think the transition to a true bitcoin standard globally will take longer than we think because of this. Even though I would like to think it’ll happen in a decade or two. I think this is going to be an intergenerational transition like many groundbreaking foundational things. The internet was different because it didn’t swap out one thing for another it developed alongside and complimented many real world businesses before slowly shifting over. Many physical stores had web stores too, this legitimised the experience for many older users who could now buy things from companies they trusted, the transition was smooth. We will see treasury companies and banks legitimising bitcoin and this will act in a similar way, but even that is a large paradigm shift compared.
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Agreed.
Andreas Antonopolous speaking to a room of one. Had that on loop. First thought - he's an idiot. Thoughts after that - why? Result - ploughed into everything I could find on this idiot.
At the time I was self learning how to trade currency . But before I could do that I needed to understand how money worked . Mike Maloney had 10 x 1 hour podcast on the History of Money. Those podcasts took me three months .
So, when Andreas came along - speaking internet of money, keys, cryptography, decentralized, wallets- alien language . It was the description of paying bitcoin from the Amazon to the Sahara without a bank - I was hooked.
Your note resonates - stacking a knowledge bank, that ticks the boxes, only to create more questions - and the journey goes down many rabbit holes, from the reaction of bank regulators to Trudeau's disastrous response to Canada's Freedom Convoy - all stacked away, before data gets whitewashed.
The journey still continues - ramped up since Covid lockdown. Bitcoin is still the light at the end of the tunnel.
And now we have Nostr. I'm truly blessed.