3. Everyone is against Bitcoin before they are for it.
This might be "projection" on his part. I don't profess to speak for everyone and certainly most people I talked to about it from the beginning were skeptical or just had no interest but personally, I was never against Bitcoin. My understanding of Bitcoin changed over time and maybe I was only curious about it at first but I was never "against" Bitcoin.
when i 1st heard of bitcoin in 2011 it was from a distributed computing point of view, as i had been in folding@home and such for years already. so it was pure curiosity at that point. well that and the possibility making beer money on the side by selling these weird "bitcoin" thingies to someone sounded cool.
as i (slowly!) learned more, and watched bitcoin survive hit after hit and basically shrug it off made me a believer in its long term viability.