New to Bitcoin! New to Stacker News! Ask Me Anything! \ stacker news ~AMA

New to Bitcoin! New to Stacker News! Ask Me Anything!

843 sats \ 48 comments \ @Melisa 8 Jul AMA freebie

New to Bitcoin! New to Stacker News!

I would like to learn more about Bitcoin and Stacker News seems to be a great forum so far!

My field of study is Psychology!

I'm planning to make Bitcoin my second field of study!

33 sats \ 9 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 8 Jul

Is it possible to characterize a devout Bitcoin adherent as a psychopath from a psychiatric perspective? If so, what would be the rationale behind such a classification?

34 sats \ 8 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Wow, what a question!

Certainly, from a psychiatric perspective, it is not appropriate or accurate to characterize a devout Bitcoin adherent as a psychopath.

In a few words, "psychopathy" can be defined as follows: A specific personality disorder characterized by persistent antisocial behavior, impaired empathy and remorse, boldness, disinhibition, and selfish traits.

Do you think "a devout Bitcoin adherent" demonstrates such traits?

I do not believe that adherence to or enthusiasm for Bitcoin is inherently consistent with these traits.

44 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Jul

13 sats \ 2 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Who says that? Most likely, psychopaths are the ones who said that! 😄

26 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 8 Jul

23 sats \ 0 replies \ @BitByBit21 8 Jul

https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/bitcoin-fans-are-psychopaths-who-dont-care-about-anyone-study-shows/

65 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 8 Jul

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xbitcoiner 8 Jul

Nah, I was just seeing how much you know about psychology 😂

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Oh, nice try! 😄

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 9 Jul

modern psychologists have been duped into believing all kinds of definitions from made up definitionaries. psycho-pathologic thought is any thought deviating from the natural order of things. balanced thought uses both logical and abstract processes, but most of the population is locked into mostly logic or mostly abstraction. the result is invariably chaos.

how we think, so we feel, and so we act.

understanding bitcoin (standing under the rules of bitcoin) requires both abstract and logical thinking, and it is tightly connected to reality and real-world energy. the mind gets rebalanced when we think about Bitcoin and bitcoiners - hence it feels like a psychedelic experience, but really it is an awakening from psycho-pathologic thinking.

93 sats \ 13 replies \ @didiplaywell 8 Jul

Welcome! What brought you to bitcoin? What brought you to stacker news?

176 sats \ 3 replies \ @cryotosensei 8 Jul

You are alive!

I thought you might enjoy this: In Chinese, the ideogram for the word crisis 危机 is made up of two characters: danger 危 and opportunity 机.

33 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

I like it!

Crises can be times of both danger and opportunity.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @Lux 8 Jul

this is interesting, teach us more sensei

13 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 8 Jul

I'm Sr! I have been busy so I'm less present, but I also found I enjoy SN much more this way :)

I absolutely love that, thank you for bringing it to me :) This examples are the reason I want to learn Chinese in a future, and read the classical texts in the original language

63 sats \ 8 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Thank you @didiplaywell!

I found some articles related to "the psychological approach to using bitcoin" and started reading them. Then bitcoin caught my curiosity and I started to read more about bitcoin and fell in love with the great invention of an anonymous programmer.

I found Stacker News by searching the web for topics related to bitcoin.

44 sats \ 0 replies \ @didiplaywell 8 Jul

That's great! What's the "the psychological approach to using bitcoin"?

0 sats \ 5 replies \ @supratic 8 Jul

Nice! Do you remember which articles? Do you mind sharing links in case?

20 sats \ 4 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

There are many posts and articles related to this topic. This is one of them: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0969698921001727

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 8 Jul

Thanks, read this one already. I know there's many, I was more wondering if any in particular got your attention, and you were happy to suggest some good ones?

Any related book on money/psychology you also might recommend?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Any related book on money/psychology you also might recommend?

The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel is a good one.

13 sats \ 1 reply \ @didiplaywell 8 Jul

Would you mind making a post of your takes on this matter? Would be really interesting

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

That’s a good idea.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bell_curve 8 Jul

Search engine? Amazing

I guess SEO is working

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @flat24 8 Jul

With your psychology studies and understanding of the human mind and its behaviors, how do you think it would be the best option that we could apply to deconfigure the lobotomized mind of people close to us, who do not understand Bitcoin and are strongly trapped in the fiduciary model imposed by governments during the last decades?

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Unfortunately, from a psychological point of view, there is nothing you can do. If someone doesn't want to change the way they think (or their "lobotomized mind", as you call it), there's nothing you can do.

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @jgbtc 8 Jul

What do you think about the last 4 years from a psychological perspective? Was there a mass hysteria going on with covid? It seems pretty obvious to me that there was.

31 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

Covid had a huge impact on the psychological state and mental health of people, bringing to the surface many hidden traumas, despite the fact that many do not want to admit such a thing. I don't have any statistics now, but I am convinced that the work of psychologists, psychoanalysts and psychiatrists has doubled or tripled in these four years.

14 sats \ 1 reply \ @MathiuJ 8 Jul

Welcome to the journey of learning about Bitcoin friend! Hope this site becomes one of your regular stops. You should also check out the website https://bitcoin.rocks/. It's ran by a good guy and the info there is solid for folks new to bitcoin. Natalie Brunell's Coin Stories podcast is also good (https://www.youtube.com/@nataliebrunell and NOSTR: npub1ahxjq4v0zlvexf7cg8j9stumqp3nrtzqzzqxa7szpmcdgqrcumdq0h5ech)

For questions, I have three before I rush off to my day job:

#1: What is your opinion of Jordan B. Peterson is terms of his advice on psychology and his trouble with the Canadian establishment?

#2: Which do you prefer as an analytical framework: Myers-Briggs, the Big 5, or something else?

#3: Finally, if you follow sports team, what sports team's fan base do you think has the most positive mindset and which one do you think has the most negative mindset? Things like self deprecating, and self sabotaging come to mind as negative, while resilience and unconditional support seems to be positives to me. If it's easier to do a whole sport (like baseball verse Nascar) verses one particular team, go that route with your answer.

Cheers!

40 sats \ 0 replies \ @Melisa OP 8 Jul

What is your opinion of Jordan B. Peterson is terms of his advice on psychology and his trouble with the Canadian establishment?

Not a big fan of him!

Which do you prefer as an analytical framework: Myers-Briggs, the Big 5, or something else?

I like the Myers-Briggs analytical framework more.

if you follow sports team, what sports team's fan base do you think has the most positive mindset and which one do you think has the most negative mindset?

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of sports in general. In general, I think that moderate sports fans have the most positive mindset, while extreme sports fans have the most negative mindset.

And I agree with you: