I definitely promised some Stacker my intellectual journey into Bitcoin. I probs sent them my "How Bubbles, Price And COVID-19 Changed Bitcoin for Me"... but now I finally wrote up the more low-key story:
We talk, talk, talk, but it feels like nothing happens??
...and sometimes you seem to make zero headway, but the seeds are there -- the orange virus working away at you.
Friend I spoke to a lot about money and monetary policy definitely failed to orange-pill me back then. But also... not...?
My friend’s repeated, passionate arguments during those formative years were probably decisive, setting me up for embracing Satoshi in my heart. There was no specific orange-pill moment, and the intellectual (and, I suppose, ethical) trajectory I went through was anything but smooth — with plenty of soul-searching and reassessments of core beliefs along the way.
In the piece I list some of the articles I wrote about bitcoin through the years, chronicling my progression:
- “I Have Doubts About Bitcoin” (Dec ’17): Bitcoin-curious.
- “Bitcoin’s Fixed Money Supply Is a Weakness” (Aug ’19): a hostile no-coiner.
- “There Will Be No New Bitcoin Man” (May ’20): an annoyed obsessive.
- “How Much of My Portfolio Should be Allocated to Bitcoin?” (Aug ’21): an apologetic, an optimistic believer — a soft orange-pill.
- “How Bad Is Bitcoin’s Flaw?” (Dec ’21): one of us, one of us!