Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to talk about how things are moving forward as far as people being exposed to and accepting Bitcoin!

Normies Jumping In

Are we breaking the barrier? I don't mean Normies in a derogatory sense but this was a surprise for me!

The other day, I was talking to a friend of mine at work. We were just shooting the shit in a meeting with a few of us waiting to get things started. One of them said that they are waiting to win the lottery so they can stop doing the crap that they're doing. A few laughed but one of my friends said that he's hoping Bitcoin really pulls out for him and he's looking forward to what the halving event will bring us.

I was pretty excited but I know that there are likely dozens of people that I work with that are into crypto and the like. It's one of those weird things though - where you don't talk a lot about it and I find that an interesting perspective. I also don't talk about crypto much, I'll mention an off-hand type of thing about Bitcoin here and there but not really much beyond that. I also never talk about Hive because that's a paradigm shift that a lot of people really aren't ready for.

With my friend and his talk of Bitcoin though, I do wonder if there are more people that are willing to explore the depths of what crypto can offer. I know that I'm certainly going to try and chat with him about it all when we get an opportunity. There is sometimes weeks that go by when I don't talk to him but I did send him a message that the halving event is likely not going to be the catalyst for the bull run the way a bunch of people on here like Edicted are thinking. I tend to agree with them on that, I think the halving event is certainly going to be important but I don't think that it's going to be the wild thing that people are trying to make it out to be.

With how obsessed and focused people were about getting big daddy government to govern them harder with the Bitcoin ETF, I'm not too optimistic that people are thinking about this intelligently but rather as a way to piss away their time and money over something stupid.

I knew one of my other work friends was into crypto because him and I talked a little bit about it once and I asked him if he knew that the Bitcoin whitepaper was on his Mac computer and he said that he knew about it which was cool. Besides that guy, I didn't really find another guy until the other day when I was chatting with this other coworker that we'll call John. I think that John and I see eye to eye on a lot of things so it makes sense that he would be into crypto but I also know that John has a lot of debts that he admitted to hahaha so I don't think that his vision of crypto is as libertarian as mine is. It's all good though, it's nice to see that he's got exposure to it!

That makes me think that there are more people who are knowledgeable to it these days than there were even a year ago or two. I think that makes sense given that we did have a couple bull runs since I've gotten into crypto so it is likely that it's going to happen. The thing I'm wondering is if the tide is turning in the positive direction for people becoming aware of Bitcoin and things like Monero and what they represent or if it's just people who are looking at it like the new stock market and want to get in on it early so they can make a bunch of shitty fiat dollars instead of trying to change the financial paradigm for the better of humanity.

I've got hope that John is more on the libertarian side of it, as we talked about other things of that nature so I will try and make it a point to chat with him, likely trying to move it off company software so we don't get any stupid shit that goes on with us doing it on it. I'm a lot more skeptical and suspicious of doing these things on anything company related but sadly there are a lot of people who are willy-nilly with their information and habits. They make for easy targets of these gigantic companies and people who steal information left and right which is unfortunate.

I think I'm going to try and get with John sometime next week to pick his brain on what he knows and see if I can gain a deeper friendship with the guy over things like Bitcoin and the crypto ecosystem!

^-CmplXty. _{Real human written content, never AI.}

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