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83 sats \ 2 replies \ @nichro 10h \ parent \ on: What's the most ridiculous and poisonous Bitcoin critique till date? AskSN
Agree with this. Big barrier in orange pilling or just learning more about bitcoin in general. A lot of people think they are "getting into bitcoin" and "learning about bitcoin" but they are really getting into and learning about crypto at large.
I've seen many get burned and give up ostensibly forever.
Many others don't get burned but get lost in the weeds of crypto/alts too long, and it takes much longer (if ever) before even touching on the important concepts in the periphery of bitcoin, like austrian economics, the nature of inflation and fiat money and their implications. What feels like progress learning about crypto ends up being just a detour that leads to fiat games reinvented. At that point they gotta walk back downhill before climbing the hill towards the right direction again. Some unlearning and relearning to do.
Actual convo I had recently after crypto came up and I said I liked bitcoin, included bits that went something like:
"Oh I tried the whole bitcoin crypto thing a few years ago, trading and staking, yield farms, and auto market makers, all that stuff"
but they are really getting into and learning about crypto at large
When someone 'learns' about crypto... what the hell are they learning?
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learning how to choose the right coins, how to buy, sell, trade and leverage, how to use metamask, and how to find the niche exchanges to find the newest meme coin of the month, how to find the telegram groups for pumps and dumps, how to stake and all that jazz
There's lots to learn! Just nothing about ending fiat banking or transacting as we do with money.
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