What’s challenged you the most while learning Bitcoin?
For me, staying humble while stacking sats.
We don’t have it all figured out.
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129 sats \ 3 replies \ @blockdyor 10 Jul 2023
When everyone you know says the opposite and it's against your ideas, you should always listen to your inner voice, do your own research and act accordingly.
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35 sats \ 1 reply \ @elvismercury 10 Jul 2023
Unpopular opinion: if everyone you know says the opposite of what you think, you should look pretty fucking carefully at what you believe and try to figure out if it's true, or if you're fooling yourself.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 11 Jul 2023
he said, "do your own research and act accordingly"
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7 sats \ 0 replies \ @itsrealfake 10 Jul 2023
^^ this is a great lesson for all kinds of topics beyond bitty.
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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @kenn_b 10 Jul 2023
I'd say, for me, it would be the concept of getting away from FIAT and banks. Still working on this, but to get into the mindset where you want to get out of the system was the hardest.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Lumor 10 Jul 2023
You say you want it, but do you really want to exit?
If you are not a larp, what was your last step?
Asking for a friend.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @kenn_b 11 Jul 2023
Ideally yes, for sure, but of course not easy. This is a long process and not going to happen over night. I have no idea what that last step is, but one day, I'll get there.
The point of my post was not that I fully exited, but that the decision to go on that journey was what challenged me the most. It was the hardest to grasp the reality that the current system is just broken and to make a conscious effort to move away from it. In a same way for a working person who only worked in a safety of a steady job to decide to start their own company (a very hard decision to make psychologically).
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20 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheWildHustle 10 Jul 2023
Incentives matter
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25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinosphere 11 Jul 2023
Patience.
I've been a 100% believer in Bitcoin since the fall of 2011. In the beginning every little piece of good news made me think the world would catch up with my view of bitcoin. Then after the fall of Gox I thought when a few new exchanges took it's place they'd see. Then when we hit a new ATH, I thought they'd see. Then the china ban, then the ICO market, then the next craze and the next fad, etc. So many times I got my hope up thinking this time it's going to happen.
Now I'm quite Jaded. When something like Blackrock filing an ETF happens I yawn and think, so? How will that get the vast masses of stupid people to finally open their eyes... They've never even heard of blackrock!
I still think bitcoin will be the world's main currency one day in my lifetime, but I now think it has nothing to do with people understanding it, and everything to do with their existing currencies failing them so they have no choice. That isn't going to happen this year. Maybe not even this decade.
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23 sats \ 0 replies \ @WeAreAllSatoshi 10 Jul 2023
We all get bitcoin at the price we deserve
ETA: But seriously, doing your own research instead of just taking someone’s word for something is crucial. It helps you learn, make better decisions, and take control of your life.
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16 sats \ 0 replies \ @teodor 10 Jul 2023
The hardest lesson with Bitcoin? Selling it for fiat! Then regretting I did it! 😕
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14 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 10 Jul 2023
Probably patience and accepting difficult and great things don't happen over night. Sometimes it is easy to get caught in the hype cycles and projections of billions of users and multimillion USD price predictions but it is best to focus on one foot in front of the other. Stack sats daily, keep learning, keep sharing your knowledge with others. The rest will take care of itself.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @mrtali 10 Jul 2023
That all the system was a lie.
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @Ganjamon 10 Jul 2023
For me it was stacking sats and belief in bitcoin.
I dont even flinch now at dips. BTC has treated me better than Fiat and it makes me smile looking at my stack now, knowing that no one can take these savings from me
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @LowK3y19 30 Oct
Learning when to buy and how long to hold for
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 10 Jul
This post was featured on This Day in Stacker News.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 11 Jul 2023
There's not point in getting preoccupied with convincing everyone around you to adopt bitcoin. Instead, just build rapport and value with people who have already adopted bitcoin.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @2a3dex5 11 Jul 2023
Staying solvent, in order avoid looking to selling as an option.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @rip 10 Jul 2023
consolidate dust when its 1sat/vB
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @premitive1 11 Jul 2023
what about the stuff that's dust at 1 s/bB??
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @crrdlx 10 Jul 2023
copy/paste will rekt you
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @beorange 10 Jul 2023
That the resistance to change is a very powerful force.
Most people prefer to use a known system that is not a good fit for them, instead of considering new and better ways that are unfamiliar to them, but could improve their lives.
It is what it is.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lumor 10 Jul 2023
Sunk cost fallacy. I think there is something to it, not always just a fallacy.
Example I was thinking about today: Uprooting one's family and moving to a new place, building out relationships with new locals, planting new roots. Will they accept you as well as they did in your previous community? Maybe you are in a different age group by now and haven't yet figured out how to effectively find friends. Maybe you have to relearn the seasons and what grows best if you move far enough.
That may be part of an evolutionary biology explanation for why sunk cost is something we might overcompensate for.
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13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Zepasta 10 Jul 2023
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