You would think an MIT grad and subsequent computer simulations modeler would've understood Bitcoin back in 2013.
I'm no MIT grad and I got it almost immediately back then.
Hell within a few days of research, I completely understood how groundbreaking a breakthrough it was, and how it would fundamentally change the financial world.
lots of really smart IT guys dismissed bitcoin because they knew that nothing digital on the web would ever be safe. I once talked to an executive board member of the biggest German IT company SAP. He heard me mentioning bitcoin and he started to make fun of me, telling everyone his teenage son was into this crab. I told him he should stop laughing and start listening to his son.