Your brain's been wiped. You forget everything you know about Bitcoin. Now what?
2484 sats \ 25 comments \ @birdeye21 25 Oct 2023 bitcoin
What would life look like right now?
I've sometimes thought about this -- about where my life would be right now if I had never discovered Bitcoin?
Let's say that you heard about it today, for the very first time (again). Now you have a chance to re-learn everything that you once knew. How would your learning process change?
Where would you begin this time? What would you avoid this time around? Is there any guidance you wish you had? Concepts that would've clarified things? Friends to help you with certain things?
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417 sats \ 0 replies \ @benthecarman 25 Oct 2023
im totally getting fired
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196 sats \ 3 replies \ @Natalia 25 Oct 2023
Good thing is I wrote down all the important stuff! cheat codes haha.
How would your learning process change?
I would
  • just read @DarthCoin's guide if I lucky to find it again
  • not wasting money on buying ledger
  • not touching CEX
  • hangout in SN 😂
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Oct 2023
I really wonder what kinda gibberish all my notes and writings on bitcoin over the years would look like to me today if I forgot all about it 😅
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @TheWildHustle 25 Oct 2023
The rantings of a madman
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Oct 2023
oh thats still the case i acknowledge!
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64 sats \ 0 replies \ @nerd2ninja 25 Oct 2023
This is actually useful for thinking about how newbies are seeing Bitcoin right now.
I think you need to add: Your memory of 2008 and its impacts on your family is wiped from your memory (maybe only Covid economics are etched in your mind.
Probably have to add a lot of other things too
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56 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 25 Oct 2023
If my brain was wiped? Bitcoin wouldn't be my first concern. Getting to know my wife and kids would be. Figuring out how to make a living. Regarding bitcoin, my family would help me rebuild by sharing what I've shared with them and because of my habits I would be able to not make the same mistakes I made the first go around with bitcoin. I'm sure my family would tell me about many of my mistakes because I don't hide them from them.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Oct 2023
Yep, the knowledge may be gone but the habits and skills developed are still there to learn. Would be much easier this time around
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59 sats \ 3 replies \ @MattInTech 25 Oct 2023
I wouldn't trust "knowledgeable" people trying to dissuade me from buying Bitcoin because "it's just a bubble, it will never take over".
Fuck my high school economics teacher. Fuck me for listening to her advice. I would have entered the Bitcoin space way sooner.
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49 sats \ 1 reply \ @owleyedapprentice 25 Oct 2023
economists' best skillset = spinning fairy tales to suppress their own cognitive dissonance
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @MattInTech 25 Oct 2023
Agree. Well, part of my university background is in economics (but now doing something else), let's see if newer generations can fix this ;)
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Oct 2023
With teachers it's the worst, because it's literally their job to be more educated on you, too bad many of them forget that they arent experts in everything
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52 sats \ 4 replies \ @DarthCoin 25 Oct 2023
How would your learning process change?
Will not change in any way. Will start over as I started in 2012, with the Bitcoin whitepaper.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bullen 25 Oct 2023
Same, but through the shitcoiner route because bitcoin is obviously old tech and not good for the environment, which doesn't even solve any problem plus I can't use it for anything yada yada yada
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 25 Oct 2023
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bullen 25 Oct 2023
Nah mate what the hell! Let this shitcoiner in, he'll learn. He did once before the sudden amnesia!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Oct 2023
The white paper confused me too much first, reading and podcasts clarified things much more easily in my experience
The white paper a much more satisfying read nowadays haha
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @chairman_pretense 25 Oct 2023
Moving house I find a weird slab of metal with some nonsense words on. I chuck it in the trash because what's this crap for.
Rekt.
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @justBrian 25 Oct 2023
Read broken money as first introduction. Avoid shitcoining hopefully. Avoid buying a shitty, small utxo-y KYC bag. Start home miming and running a lightning node asap but thats pretty wishful thinking 😅
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @justBrian 25 Oct 2023
But seriously i think broken money is a great book to read once you are starting down the path...very comprehensive and better than bitcoin standard imo. Very glad it exists now.
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42 sats \ 0 replies \ @gabybaby 25 Oct 2023
I think in the end I would end up right where I am today, with what I know about BTC. BTC was the illuminating answer to an economic and financial unease I was feeling, not a solution in search of a problem.
Because I came to it with the question in mind first, as long as my analytical approach and inquisitive nature are still the same after Agent J visits me, I'm confident I would be back here.
In hindsight, one thing I would change is using KYC exchanges as my gateway to the network. I didn't use them for very long but because of all the issues associated with using them, I'd like to have that decision back.
Cheers!
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42 sats \ 1 reply \ @2bithits 25 Oct 2023
Being a bit stubborn I'd likely make a lot of the same mistakes again. Its the only way I learn
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Oct 2023
The correct answer
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Ge 25 Oct 2023
I'd probably go back to being a sport loving sheep working dead end jobs being miserable and fall into sports gambling taking trips bitching about inflation and being pro war pro esg marching along with the masses 🐑💀
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1 sat \ 0 replies \ @TwoLargePizzas 26 Oct 2023
My Bitcoin journey started with one simple question "What is money?" As long as I don't forget the question, I'm sure I'd still go down the same path.
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