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I only know 3-4 and of them only one or two would I call serious about the tech and ideas behind Bitcoin.
It is such amazing monetary technology yet so many people seem brainwashed into accepting the state fiat monetary monopoly that is imposed upon us.
Early on I would tell friends and family about this new technology but most just did not get it, some being quite hostile to the whole idea of being free of the banks and government.
Why do so many people accept being sheep/slaves?
Zero. I have a couple friends who r into "crypto". Wouldn't call them bitcoiners
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A friend told me about bitcoin early 2017 and he was into shitcoins then as well. I dabbled in a mix of them and it was all new and exciting and rather crazy but then read 'The Bitcoin Standard' which helped me see the fraudulent DINO nature of all shitcoins. Sold all the shitcoins and have just held Bitcoin from then. By that stage my friend had received a small inheritance from his father who had died aged over 90 but it was not nearly enough to buy a house and his income was not enough even to get a mortgage so I suggested take a chance and invest most of it in Bitcoin. He did and now he is able to buy several houses, travel, new car do whatever he wants with life. All his life he was living on a very minimal budget- now he has monetary freedom of choice and can do many projects that would have been impossible otherwise. I feel lucky to learn about Bitcoin from him because he is a techy geeky guy and understands the technology and so explained it from a positive technological perspective unlike all the negative media FUD.
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Awesome feel good story. I learned about bitcoin around the same time too , 2017-2018. But I was skeptical due to the daily scams and rugpulls we read on the news. Not until recently have I realized how different bitcoin is from all the other noise. Now Im all in.
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1, but he is also in shitcoins
people who missed out invent all kinds of excuses
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Yes I was talking about bitcoin back in 2017 and they were saying bitcoin is a 'scam'. Now I feel a bit sorry for them as even I never expected the price to go where it has. For me it was firstly about having direct custody and control of my money- not being subservient to bankers and government. NGU is great, but secondary. Most people I know I thought were freethinkers- critical of too much government corporate/banker power and valuing individual freedom - we protested in the Occupy movement and wanted more accountability from banks and governments - but when this amazing technology that enables us to have our own decentralised p2p payments without government or bankers and that treats all participants on strictly equal terms became available, they didn't/don't see the beauty, freedom and power of it.
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