Those who remember life before the internet, but were plugged in enough to see how its completely transformed society
3) Tradfi
Those who worked on Wall Street or have studied money enough to know fiat currencies are a shared delusion
If you grew up in a fairly stable country with a fairly stable money supply, you forget the power of Category 1.
"Personally," Robby says, "my grandfather escaped Nazi Germany after hyperinflation destroyed his wealth & fascists murdered his family...."
"That has created for me... a deep cultural appreciation of the freedoms embedded in the American project and also a real sense of what happens when they go awry."
The Cat 1 buyers are the real OGs. They remind us why we're here
And lo the young man heard that there were others like him...
poor and weary in a world of disease...
who had scraped together some small piece of their wages
And used it to buy a different sort of money
This was not money of the governments of men
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This was money made by ghosts and ghouls, by men and women whose faces no one knew (nor would ever know)
This money was not controlled by elders with bellies that swayed when they laughed and pushed like overfull bladders against the ivory buttons on their shirts
This money was governed by something altogether different...
by a higher order...
by math...
by the inalienable laws in fact of the universe itself...
The young man did not tell a soul what he was doing. But he bought the new money, too
Do you want to know the absolute worst people in the world to talk #Bitcoin with?
Bank tellers are pretty bad. They're so beat down by compliance and rules and regs that they think EVERYTHING that doesn't involve reams of paperwork and identification documents is a scam.
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But no. I get where they're coming from. Their experiences are valid
Maybe you're thinking it's the friendly investment advisor at Edward Jones
tbh they seem to be warming up to crypto (I think we can thank the millennials for shoving it like hot dogs down their throats)
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No, the worst people I've ever tried to talk crypto with are econ professors
They get this smug fucking look on their faces like I'm fucking peon with no "credentials" who would deign to talk them about something they've pigeonholed as a ponzi
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