And in a decades time my immediate response when someone says I was lucky, will be to punch them in the face. This shit ain't easy, but it does pay off.
Yeah. I do not know how we will ever win that argument. It is kind of a "had to be there" thing.
They may never know what balls it took to hold through all the swings. Even though the reason they never bought in was they did not have those balls.
It is comforting that Bitcoin, as inevitable as it is, is just not obvious enough EVEN STILL for the masses to get in and stay in. It's that adoption graph. Lots of those folks will be calling us lucky as they buy their first sats to be able to easily pay for their coffee.
I am typing this message on a computer that runs Arch Linux. Some of my technical friends even will say, man why do you run that off the wall OS? They do not realize that if they use an android phone, a MAC or ANYTHING on the internet that they TOO are running a *nix OS.
I think bitcoin will be like that too. Strike is the first hint. People using bitcoin, but not actually even knowing it...
We are kind of lucky though...