Security is a mandatory thing to look out, I was away for a long time, but I did not stopped learning, and the most important learning was, we should never tell anyone we are holding Bitcoins, that's another thing if some scammer somehow know we are holding btc and they try to phish us we can still save us by not doing anything stupid but we can face security threats from our loved ones and people around us so never tell anyone how much btc we have, or my brother have and even my father has.
https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1956747783530037670This news is enough to understand the sensitivity of this situation, if we tell anyone, the word will spread out like fire and it will reach to the ears of some bad people and they can do bad things to you, or anyone near you who you love and it can become a problem. Never share anyone about the bitcoin investment.
How is bitcoin going to spread if no one wants to admit that they use bitcoin? You expect bitcoin to still have value if everyone is secret about it?
In other words, one can spread the aware of Bitcoin and it's important, with specific reason of why it's good for people to hodl it including the benefits they stand to gain in future but avoid letting them know what she or he is worth in Bitcoin, for security reasons.
i think this is likely what he is trying to pass across only that he might have passed his message in a one sided manner that did not deliver it intent the right way. if you are living in a region where some security agency are taking things too serious and you can not really trust the next person that much, it is usuallly defficult to be direst on what you let the next person know because on the one hand, you wnat to be sure you are not exposing yourself to the threat of kidnappers and thiefs and on the other hand, you want to also ensure that the security agencies do not target you and frame up false accusation on you.
Ofcause, being bullish about bitcoin and telling others about it is what also helps in boosting it adoption but the reality is that the same way you are conscious of your asset security is the same way you should be conscious of your personal security which will demand that regardless of how you speaks about bitcoin in the public space, you ensure that you reveal little to nothing about how much bitcoin you are holding. in my country for instance, if the security agency find out that you hold like say $3k worth of bitcoin maybe through an online gigg and they can not trace your source of that bitcoin to something that see to be okay, they will try everything that is within there power to confisticate it. that might be part of the reason why some people might not be willing to ak much about bitcoin in the public but then, there is always a modest way of going about it in a safe and secure manner.