Every person discovers Bitcoin for themselves.

Also, virtual isn't the right word. Proof of work ties Bitcoin to the real world in a way that no purely virtual system would.

Take ETH for example. It's purely virtual now. It's a captured coin that's pretending to be Bitcoin while at the same time removing POW, the thing that makes Bitcoin and all it promises work.

Bitcoin isn't virtual. Bitcoin is the only thing that we can all verify that it's real.

Proof of work is objective. Everything else is stupid.