Between ideological purity and strategic compromise: choosing to build bridges without betraying the direction.

I’ve been in the Bitcoin environment for several years now and, especially in Italy, I’ve seen various communities born and grow. Not that I’ve ever had a significant role, far from it: I’m just a humble pleb who, after delving into the cypherpunk rabbit hole, has always wanted to stay close to this world and give, in my own small way, a contribution.

My journey within the community (not in Bitcoin, that had started a bit earlier) began on Clubhouse. I still remember several rooms I participated in and in which I asked various questions to the evening’s guest: the excellent Rikki6ixx. I had discovered Bitcoin a few years earlier, but I hadn’t yet thrown myself headfirst into it: the click hadn’t happened yet.

Since I was a child I’ve always been a nerd — among manga, video games, graphics cards and disassembled computers. I’ve always been fascinated by new technologies and innovations. Bitcoin, up to that moment, gave me exactly that impression: a mysterious but not yet revolutionary technology. Despite this, even without having studied it in depth yet, I already sensed I was facing something enormous.

Time passed, and I found myself more involved every day. Block after block, I fell into an infinite cultural chasm. Bitcoin pushed me to deepen many subjects. Economics, for example, which I had previously approached in a more traditional way — studying financial markets and investments — now took on a completely different role. It was yet another epiphany born from Bitcoin: if before I saw economics as a static discipline, almost passive with respect to the great world players, now I perceived it for what it really was — a technological, dynamic tool, in continuous evolution.

I saw the economy move. I perceived its social implications, its political roots, and understood how all this could be — I won’t say “solved” — but certainly improved.

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