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A lot is happen, since I gave up to orange pill people. Now different approach.
556 sats \ 4 comments \ @hasherstacker 2h bitcoin_beginners
It has been a long while since I gave up trying to orange pill people, it just felt so futile. But recently I got talking with this guy who seemed switched on, he understood what was financially wrong with the world and how a big part of it was the FIAT Keynesian system, he understood the benefit of gold backed and hard money standards, and how deadly hyperinflation can be, he knew something about Austrian econ. The guy sceptically "held" a some amount of shitcoins.
So we had been chatting about an hour by this point around these kind of topics and I thought well, maybe I'll offer the pill again, so I gently tried to suggest how bitcoin is the only true money ever to exist and if adopted globally could potentially solve a lot of the problems he's seeing,... He confidently came back with some low IQ FUD about new "bitcoins (cryptos, stablecoins, Fake L2s) different versions of Shitcoins" being printed all the time whenever a new shitcoins is created, this comment made me feel at a bit of a dead end. But wait it, I've come this far I'll push on further.
So I went deeper in explaining first mover advantage and all the other differences which make Bitcoin stand out against all the shitcoins - from fiat to cryptos, to stablecoins, to cbdc, to fake L2s, and I actually feel that I might have moved the dial. I clearly stated that there's only one true money, Bitcoin. And there's only one true Bitcoin L2, Lightning Network. The rest is all shitcoins in different versions.
Another friction point for him was that most of the Bitcoiners he had met he thought were "conspiracy theorists" so I refrained from informing him that many conspiracy theories are provably true these days but anyway... I feel I moved the needle with this guy. I don't think I fully convinced him as we ran out of time but I have hope that I may have shifted his perspective just enough that the snow ball starts rolling.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 1h
It's good you pushed on with him. That particular concern is a common hangup for people, including me.
I probably would have been orange-pilled about five years earlier if someone had just made the first-mover/network effects argument.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Brader99 2h
Unless they don't understand Bitcoin or cryptography, they will keep calling it names like "conspiracy theory" and "Bitcoin is a scam." There is a problem of people not putting effort into learning about Bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 1h
I always try to avoid "there is only one". The problem with that being that it shouldn't be a mystic thing; i.e. you trigger correlation with "the one true faith", "the one to rule them all"... and that historically has never stood the test of time. It's not a domination thing because Bitcoin isn't a government; it's a protocol.
Instead, if someone insists on their shitcoins, I explain that Bitcoin is the only thing out there that wasn't made as someone's plan to get rich (it's easy to prove this for anything that premined/ICO'd/dev tax), and the protocol today really only built on top of the original, apart from some early bugfixes, which basically takes care of the few remaining shitcoins that weren't meant to make someone rich.
I also try to steer into a direction where there is talk about how no one represents Bitcoin. So no matter what some influencer / president / rich person or even a retard like me says, Bitcoin is no more than the protocol and it's the only thing we all agree on. It's just alternative p2p money where no one is in charge. This brings much more fundamental discussions, and will scare everyone away that's looking for a quick buck.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hasherstacker OP 17m
Instead, if someone insists on their shitcoins, I explain that Bitcoin is the only thing out there that wasn't made as someone's plan to get rich (it's easy to prove this for anything that premined/ICO'd/dev tax), and the protocol today really only built on top of the original, apart from some early bugfixes, which basically takes care of the few remaining shitcoins that weren't meant to make someone rich.
Glad to see that we're aligned on this. That's exactly what makes Bitcoin is the only true form of money.
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