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I have been criticized repeatedly for being too bullish on bitcoin, and sometimes people try to hold my past experiences against me, but these are dismissible trolls. Bottom line, I formally studied computer science, and have pursued psychology and the stock market for years now. And I can clearly see the future of crypto.
Those of us who grew up in the nineties and watched the internet disrupt the world have seen it before. Both the internet and bitcoin are and were unwanted communication juggernauts by those who were unprepared for them.
The funny thing is, the ones who fought hardest against the internet were the ones who faced a loss of power due to it. Newspapers, the RIAA, and others who acted as gatekeepers of information hated the thought they would be replaced with sites like this one. They hated the idea that people would freely share information without them, including news, songs, ideas, etc.
We aren't out of that evolution yet and are still seeing the explosion of this concept. Governments are still reeling from the realities of a full blown information age where they have to astroturf and manipulate information instead of outright controlling it.
Enter bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
Except it disrupts money, not communication.
We saw it happen as we grew up, and we tried to tell the 'adults'. "The internet will change everything! In the future..." and we got a fucking pat on the head and were told to stop tying up the god damn phone lines with those noises.
To be fair, most of us were just trying to download naked women line by line anyway, but we still saw the possibilities and future of the technology.
"I'll wait for bitcoin 2.0" Just like you're waiting for internet 2.0, right? Consensus and first to market are powerful, especially for decentralized technology. The reason MySpace went the way of the dodo is because it was a centralized system that was replaced by a *better* centralized system, Facebook.
Bitcoin as a store of value and information won't be replaced. It can be complimented by other crypto, which is why I also believe in Dogecoin, but it won't be replaced any time soon. Every day that blockchain ledger exists it grows more valuable. I recently embedded a poem and declaration in it and that will persist for the rest of time. That's how powerful the blockchain is.
And trolls, haters, and PR firms hired to disrupt bitcoin online would have you believe that in the future it will go to zero. **No**. It cannot. Math and psychology won't allow that.
It already has too strong of a foothold and its viral nature is causing it to explode like a meme, the same way that other innovations in finance have exploded in popularity. The progression is clear:
Trade & Barter -> Money -> Banking -> Interest -> Bonds -> Stocks -> Derivatives ->
Cryptocurrency
All roads lead to cryptocurrency, and whether you like it or not, it's coming and it will change everything. You can't fight an idea this strong, and the only solution is to adapt. We learned the hard way we couldn't fight the internet... will those in power really be so stupid this time as well?
Fortunes will rise with the rise of cryptos, same as any other disruptive technology. And I'm going to be there, on board the train as we head to space. I've watched from the sidelines as bitcoin soared and been that hater who said, "
This is stupid" but what I really wished deep down was that I hadn't been such a doubter to begin with and had gotten on the train earlier.
Well no more. That's why I'm ferociously pro-crypto now. I studied computer science for many years so I know the technology is sound. I have studied psychology for many more so I understand the mindset of people and why adoption curves happen (and how the only way to beat them is to get on board with promising new ideas quickly while they are still 'dumb'), and I understand the internet because I've lived through the rise of it.
This is wisdom folks. This is the Game of Money. And crypto is going to be a winner.