Been a minute but realised I never shared my story with bitcoin:
I grew up in a low-income household, and a surprising number of people just didn’t have bank accounts, or more accurately, couldn’t have access. They couldn’t afford IDs, couldn’t afford the travel to a bank, etc. As I got older, realised that the system was designed to ensure that only a select few (even if that figure was in the millions) could access banks and loans. In late 2014, I stumbled on a YouTube video from Tested with Adam Savage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnm4xFC2xNo) where they bought bitcoin, the process seemed so…easy to me. And in a second, I was orange pilled. Realised how not all of our problems would be solved by bitcoin (as an economist, required a structural rewrite) but it solved enough for me to say “wow, this is actually really cool” and…well that’s my anti-climatic story of how i got orange pilled.
FlannelDipole / Asuna ⚡️
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2023-03-17 10:53:02
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