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What took you from Bitcoin normie to Bitcoin maxi?

1788 sats \ 40 comments \ @bitcoinplebdev 12 Jan 2023 bitcoin

For me:

2017 Listening to Andreas's talks and learning that bitcoin is about the people not NGU
2018 Learning about the problems with POS / ETH and the shitcoin ecosystem
2019 discovering TFTC / RHR and listening to every episode
2020 Became a fully minted node running pleb maxi

267 sats \ 2 replies \ @TomK 12 Jan 2023

I took off from zero after the covid crash that killed my bond portfolio. After having had a short intermezzo with shitcoins (eth and axie) besides 90% bitcoin I really fell into the rabbit hole to start understanding what btc really is.

190 sats \ 1 reply \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 12 Jan 2023

Nice, what got you to start with a 90% Bitcoin allocation? For me if I hadn't of listened to Andreas I'm not sure I would have gone Bitcoin first (and kept Bitcoin as the majority of my portfolio at the beginning). Kept me from getting way more wrecked during my shitcoin phase

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TomK 12 Jan 2023

Honestly? I had no idea of crypto. I was an entrepreneur with a "traditional" asset allocation. The only thing I knew in the moment of this shock was bitcoin and that it was operating outside of the legacy banking system.

58 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 13 Jan 2023 freebie

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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @maxBTC 14 Jan 2023 freebie

Woke up one morning with a strong urge to read into Bitcoin post-FTX (2022). From there I started to buy, bought a hardware wallets, spent countless nights pondering, reading essays and books.

In short, god told me.

406 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 13 Jan 2023

My first few months I dabbled in shitcoins but always had a majority in bitcoin. After reading the bitcoin standard I sold them all and have never looked back

120 sats \ 0 replies \ @Rock 12 Jan 2023

I always knew that there was something fishy about pretty much all altcoins given the amount of marketing, ICOs, and pump and dumps even back in 2017, but what really did it for me was when I first realized that Erhythm was 70% premined combined with the fact that their chain was headed for POS. Andreas Antonopoulos got me most of the way there, Matthew Kratter was also a big help.

27 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 12 Jan 2023

Pretty much this: I read the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2012 and ... booom, that was for me the trigger - "This is how we make banksters obsolete".

My Bitcoin journey in short here: https://simplybitcoin.substack.com/p/how-bitcoin-will-change-your-life and here https://darthcoin.substack.com/about

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 12 Jan 2023

Awesome write ups!

I should have shared this at the top as well, my full journey into bitcoin / dev https://bitcoinpleb.dev/blog/journey

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @nout 13 Jan 2023

Did you ever get anything else than Bitcoin?

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 13 Jan 2023

Sincerely no. I was mining a bit during 2013-2014 anx those times the GHash pool used merged mining with NMC. So I got some namecoins automaticaly. And i start using them fot some .bit domains. Was fun and interesting. But the nmc waa hacked or something like that and thr whole project imploded. So I always remained a bitcoin maxi, never attracted by any shitcoin.

During the bch fork I swap instantly all bch for btc. I didn't wait any moment with that trash.

Never did the so called trading. I only mined, bought, esrned btc and hodl snd spend.

Pure bitcoin maxi here.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nout 13 Jan 2023

Nice! Congratulations 🎉.

I'm sad to say I had shitcoining and also trading past. Lessons learned.

32 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 12 Jan 2023

I always was 90-10 bitcoin, but I went 100% after listening to the All In podcast when Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg joked about pump and dumping Solana.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Kaffi 13 Jan 2023

They are so entertaining but also very out of touch. Literally in one minute talking about the employees putting in 80 hours a week. Then next sentence joking about chamaths expensive sweaters and his trips to Italy on his yacht

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @Relight_Motion 12 Jan 2023

Actually reading.

Started buying Bitcoin in 2017 to "invest" and "get rich", unsurprisingly sold most of my BTC for altcoins at the top, because "Bitcoin is obsolete old tech". Yes, I bought XRP for $3 lmao.

Got bored and disappointed by 2019, but kept following the industry, and when the next bull came, rode some shitcoins (dog coins mostly lel). During that decided to read the goddamn whitepaper and then it clicked.

Been absorbing the plethora of Bitcoin information ever since, The Bitcoin Standard is now my go-to recommendation book for starters.

Now I'm running a full node, experimenting with LN and the future looks bright and orange!

111 sats \ 0 replies \ @Pennypacker 12 Jan 2023

Reading Only the Strong survive made all the pieces click and that push me over the edge. Worth a read for anyone who hasn't taken the time https://www.uncerto.com/only-the-strong-survive

Also Rabbit Hole Recap was the consistent pulse pushed me further each week.

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 13 Jan 2023

Celsius. I even quit my shitcoin dev job.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @pillar 13 Jan 2023

Listening to Andreas and learning about the financial oppression that almost everyone in the world lives under.

Then the goal changed from chasing greed to chatting freedom for everyone. Which, ironically, should lead to material abundance for everyone down the road.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 13 Jan 2023

Same here! Andreas deserves more credit for onboarding a huge number of principled Bitcoiners 🤝

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @southside263 13 Jan 2023

2021 - covid and stocks tanked, found AMC and GME, then a friend mentioned bitcoin.

BTC Sessions mega bulls

Reading TBCFB

https://vijayboyapati.medium.com/the-bullish-case-for-bitcoin-6ecc8bdecc1

Jack Ballers and ES legal tender speech

Bitcoin only since March 2021

Bought XRP for a week before Xmas 2022 - friend said to hold XRP to $11 and he would buy me an asic. I couldn’t hold altcoins so sold 😆

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @notgeld 13 Jan 2023

Blocksize War

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 13 Jan 2023

I always believed in the vision written down in the whitepaper and therefore always kept the majority of my savings in sats... But admittedly I thought I could trade some shitcoins for bitcoin gains back in 2012-2013 and even held a couple of alts I thought were interesting until around 2017. By the block size wars it was all over for alts in my mind; there was no way they could ever make a lasting impact because they didn't have the mining majority, the cyber hornets, & stay true to PoW.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @Condetiv 13 Jan 2023

To be honest. I miss the necessary privacy to be BTC maxi. I love Bitcoin. But the deeper I fell into the rabbit hole, the more the question: Why is there so little focus on privacy when, according to Satoshi, it should be digital cash? To this day, the only way I can explain it is that it is being consciously directed by the CIA. It was not without reason that Satoshi disappeared shortly after the CIA became aware of Bitcoin. Think about it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @l0k18 13 Jan 2023

This is also a central focus for us here at Indranet. I'm hoping that the system will enable me to fall back into the woodwork once it's up and running.

Satoshi rightly made the network fully transparent, giving us a fully auditable supply, but to fully qualify as cash there has to be strong anonymity. LN goes some way towards this, but I think that it is a clear case where there needs to be other types of Layer 2 systems running on top of Bitcoin specifically for this case. Liquid, RGB, Fedimint, Cashu, these are tippy toeing in the right direction but I'm still to see a L2 that obsoletes Monero. That will help a lot - and I do believe it will require a fully functioning, large scale anonymising p2p network layer first. Thus, Indranet!

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BITCOIN_CEO 13 Jan 2023

I find it difficult to believe that this was the makings of a "person in their garage tinkering". It feels more like a thought out manhattan project type of invention to make sure that western hegemony stays ahead of the curve.

110 sats \ 0 replies \ @blockguard 13 Jan 2023

-2013 Co-worker introduced bitcoin, first buy and bitcoin core download (self custody right from the beginning).

-2017-2018 Shitcoins, shitcoins everywhere.

-2019-2020 Learning. Reading. Bitcoin Standard. Raspiblitz. Bitcoin normie.

-2021 -> LOTS of podcasts. More reading. Umbrel. Lightning. Nostr. Full maxi.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @landxr33 13 Jan 2023

The Saylor Series on The What is Money Podcast

11 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jbana 13 Jan 2023

Ignoring Bitcoin when it went live.

Talking about it with my wife, then ignoring it more.

Wife tries to buy some ~2010ish for an anniversary gift. Doesn’t go well. Ignore some more.

Start investing into standard long term fiat like adults are supposed to.

Ignore Bitcoin more.

Play around with stocks. Get pissed off with stock market.

Dabble with Bitcoin. Much easier to deal with. Nothing comes of it.

Shitcoins siren call catches me. Invest with into projects I thought were a good idea. They fail. Teams fail. Etc. Im disgruntled but not broke. Learn my shitcoin lesson and only buy ETH and BTC.

Slowly realize ETH was a shitcoin in disguise. Fucking transformers.

Hello BTC. Only buy/use BTC. Start a node. Start a lightning node.

Yup.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 13 Jan 2023

Very similar process, except add getting rekt on shitcoins lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @cryotosensei 24 Mar

I like how you pinpointed the various milestones in your BTC journey. Do you think you are more n more Maxi as time passes by?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Brunswick 14 Jan 2023

there is no alternative

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Big5exy 13 Jan 2023

After the Nov 2018 crash I started digging deeper and stumbled across The Bitcoin Standard. I immediately sold my shitcoins, started running a node, and took full custody.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 13 Jan 2023

Started learning this past cycle. Got into crypto with gaming GPUs because I was super interested in mining. When eth went pos I started thinking about why the alt-coins really didn’t make sense. Read the sovereign-individual and the Bitcoin standard and now I’m setting up my node with a usb gecko and hope to work as a real miner in the future ⚡️

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lilfingersnft 13 Jan 2023

For me Is Twitter Bitcoiners In 2022 And on a fountain podcast And Thanks to Micro Strategy CEO Michael saylor

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @JoeNakamoto 13 Jan 2023

When I came into work one day and a colleague asked, “did you finish that writing that content on that shitcoin?”

And I’m like yeahh… why?

“Oh I thought they would’ve rugged by now.”

Made me realise most if not all projects are exit liquidity. And I don’t want to be exit liquidity.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @jgbtc 13 Jan 2023

Very similar progression for me. Around 2017/18 I was trying to get free bitcoin on scammy faucet and survey websites that were numerous at the time. I had a bunch bookmarked and would visit daily at work. I didn't realize I had missed the boat on getting any significant Bitcoin this way by several years. But these sites were all sponsored by the absolute worst ICO scams and this thankfully inoculated me against shitcoinery. At the same time I discovered Andreas on YouTube, who gets all the credit for my initial orange pilling. Then listened to every TFTC/RHR, same as you, plus all the other pods.That got me into Bitcoin Twitter, which succeeded in getting me to attend BBB in 2019, and I've been a full fledged maxi ever since.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitcoinMaxiNewsdotCom 13 Jan 2023

Had some money rotting away in a bank account. Got orange pilled by a friend and went all in back in mid 2017...

Started BitcoinMaxiNews.com in 2022, as I was tired of shitcoin news mixed with Bitcoin news...

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0268486dc4 13 Jan 2023

Unapologetic maximalist mode was flipped on after being bolstered by Bitcoin Uncensored.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @chungkingexpress 12 Jan 2023

OP What is NGR?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @bitcoinplebdev OP 12 Jan 2023

NGU = "number go up" referring to people who only care about price / wanting to get rich