13 years ago I was doing ok, but I knew something was off. My life had been full of challenge, mostly self imposed, and great adventure. Periods of affluence interspersed with precipitous falls from grace.
Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s, it was a totally different formation from the post 2000’s. There was true optimism. The markets behaved differently and this gave us a different perspective on the future and what actions we would take. I’m speaking of society in general. By markets emitting more natural frequencies, “free market” signals, there was time to earn and form capital. Lifetimes, or so we thought. We did things that sound unfeasible or even stupid today because living was the base case, not surviving through the acquisition of assets.
Anyway, 2008 and the “GFC” happened. I was badly hobbled for the second time after just beginning to recover from the stock market drop 8 years earlier. The response from Washington and Wall Street, namely the debt created and doled out to make banks “whole” after stripping people like me was my catalyst: Am I being robbed? I needed to learn. What are my tools? Can I even defend myself?
More years passed. In early 2013 I was driving when a friend in the passenger seat said “Hey you heard of bitcoin?” By the end of that night he had sent me one. I couldn’t believe what I was witnessing. This thing is finite? And only 21 million? Who the F did this?
I went nuts. Since then I’ve done some things right and many things wrong. We hear the stories from the btc OG’s and think it was simple. Easy. Well, let go of those thoughts. It wasn’t easy. It was a rocky, perilous trail, slippery with cliffs on both sides.
So, here we stand. Whether or not we are in the pioneer stage doesn’t matter. I am grateful to my fellow man. When I started a BTC Meetup, 2014, so many showed up just to debate. After all, they had $USD and it “rules the world”. Ok dude, you do you.
I remember one day I had purchased 7 btc. It wasn’t a massive outlay but I felt pretty good about it if a little uneasy. That evening I was at an event and having a beer with a friend who had his financial advisor with him. I mentioned
my buy that day. The guy started laughing so hard blew beer out of his mouth and sprayed my face. What a financial illiterate I must be to do this. I wiped my face, saying nothing. Was I “right”? F if I knew. What I did know, I wanted no part of the business that payed that douchebag or his ilk a commission.
Today I’m interested in what’s
going on here, with you all. I want to know what’s cool about Nostr,
Primal, how these things are interacting and motivating us. Please share with me the best writings or anything that can help expedite my learning.
I am as psyched as ever on bitcoin. It is the coolest piece of code written in the last 20 years. To me it’s the most important thing happening in the World. We are here together. You are in the right place. Be patient. Be disciplined. Be humble. This is badass.
