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It’s that moment when you realize money was never really yours before.Bitcoin makes ownership, permission, and control explicit and once you see that, price almost feels secondary.
It’s frustrating how something meant to be simple turns into constant micromanaging just to not overpay, the fees quietly dictate your behavior more than the payment itself.
It really messes with you once you notice how much of money is just habit and trust. Bitcoin feels uncomfortable because it forces you to question rules you were never meant to look at but that discomfort is also where the clarity comes from.
Exactly. You don’t arrive thinking revolution you arrive curious, maybe even skeptical. But actually using it forces you to confront how much trust you’ve been outsourcing without noticing that realization is productive because it changes how you question systems not just money. Education helps, but experience is what really flips the switch.
Could it be that the resistance isn’t really about Bitcoin at all but about how scary it is to take responsibility for your own money?
If you’ve spent your whole life trusting institutions by default doesn’t real financial self custody feel less like freedom at first and more like risk?
The timing is the problem, when internet access disappears right before an election, it stops feeling neutral and starts feeling like control. Even if there’s a technical or legal excuse, cutting connectivity at that moment undermines trust and raises real concerns about who gets to shape the flow of information.
Micromanagement drains way more energy than the work itself setting hard boundaries is usually the only thing that works, otherwise it never stops, If stacking is the trade-off, I get riding it for a while just don’t let it burn you out completely.
Rules don’t remove risk they reroute it. Pretending otherwise is how we keep getting surprised by the same kind of crisis in new places.
This resonates because it doesn’t blame, it observes.
Modern control is subtle not violent it thrives on distraction and dependency
real freedom starts with noticing those patterns.
This is very up interesting