Bitcoin Changes You

We have a saying in Bitcoin, “Come for the ‘number go up,’ stay for the revolution.”

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Indeed, Bitcoin’s enormous increase in purchasing power has not only allured individual investors for 15 years, but is now attracting significant capital from large, public corporations to state pension funds.

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But what is most interesting about Bitcoin is not its ability to preserve and increase in dollar-denominated value, but rather what it does to those that catch the bug.

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Upon closer examination of our world, achieved through the study of Bitcoin, it becomes quite evident that incentives and habits are broken all over the place:

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• We lather ourselves in chemical protectants to avoid exposure to the sun, the supreme source of energy, and therefore, life on earth.

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• We eat low-cost, highly processed food in place of nutrient-dense options, such as meat and eggs.

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• We are fooled into buying cheap trinkets made in China instead of investing in quality products that we actually need.

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• We have fewer children because we want “freedom” or because of “climate change” or other high time preference excuses.

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• We settle for Neflix and video games and social media at the expense of weekly meetups with friends that can offer us real relationships and good conversation.

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• We tolerate modern “art” and pathetically hideous architecture because so few people have the inclination to master these trades, or invest capital in their greatness, any longer.

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The list goes on. (If you want to uncover more of the “why” of these trends, read The Fiat Standard by Saifedean Ammous).

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When you start learning about Bitcoin as sound money - money that cannot be printed, manipulated, or debased - you begin to piece together just how far we’ve deviated from what should be normal. We’ve accepted a far inferior way of life because it has happened slowly and insidiously over the last 50 or so years.

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Bitcoin teaches you to question everything you once knew. It truly is an escape hatch from the matrix.

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Some will come to this realization sooner than others, but eventually nearly everyone will have to take the medicine.

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It can be a rude awakening, to be sure. But my nearly any measure, learning about Bitcoin will enlighten you to lost truths that you’ve likely known were missing all along.