Good to be here. Read and observed the forum since I joined and must say I like how detailed the discussions here are compared to social media platforms. As a beginner I noticed some topics are mentioned a lot like wallets, security nd scams but I still feel there are always new perspectives. For instance my first impression of bitcoin is that it is more about personal responsibility than anything else. If you loose your keys, you loose your coins and that feels different from banks. For those who have been in the game longer, what was your first impression when you realized how it actually works?
It took me a long time to understand Bitcoin. At first, I didn’t have much information only what mainstream media was pushing,the narrative about blockchain as a cutting-edge technology, crypto trading, and getting rich quickly. In the beginning, it all seemed meaningless.It wasn’t until some people recommended that I read Bitcoin Standard that things finally started to make sense. In the beginning, I thought it looked like some kind of scam, something meaningless. But as I went further down the rabbit hole and started studying money, I realized that banks and fiat currency are actually the real scam and Bitcoin is the solution A protection against fraud. .I said to myself,Oh God, how did I not see this earlier How do other people not see it
And then you feel the urge to tell everyone your family, friends, acquaintances, people on forums. You try to explain it to everyone and wake them up from the matrix. But for some reason, they just can’t grasp it, don’t understand, and don’t see what you see. This leads to frustration.