^^ your posts are always a great read. I agree with every single words, it is indeed a fantastic time to be alive. I pity the fact that I have only a little number of real life acquaintance I can share this excitement with
Thank you.
I saw a soccer mom on Facebook the other day talking about that MLM scam where women wrap themselves.... don't ask me; the latest bullshit going around after Herbalife. Point is, she is desperately trying to earn some extra money for her family and thinks the best way to do that is to spam the shit out of her Facebook feed with this Wrap shit. She's even bought a distribution kit from the company for $99 so she can call herself a 'business'.
Holy hell man.
So I IM'd her, and told her if she had spent that $99 on Bitcoin in 2010 that she would have the equivalent of about $200,000 now with no other work required. I told her that money was about to change forever, and people who put in a little work now will be rich beyond reason in a decade. I asked her she'd like to be the savior of her family, and the one who didn't bring in an extra few hundred a week - but actually changed her family line forever.
She said she'd heard of bitcoin - that she thinks its some kind of digital money or something but she didn't know any more than that.
So I linked her to Mr. Casares' excellent TED presentation and asked her to watch it:
https://youtu.be/yPIvqJsCOSo and told her afterwards we could talk more about any questions she had.
I've slowly reached out to my online and real life friends and the ratio is about 1 person who cares to 19 who don't. But that's how things grow... laggards gonna lag. And if there's anyone you shouldn't mind pitching cryptocurrency to it's these people who already show a predisposition to be brainwashed by this MLM shit - face it: cryptocurrency has speculatory aspects that mimic some parts of a MLM scheme, but diverge in that crypto can form the basis of a functioning economy while the money you pour into a pyramid scheme will always be worthless. If they get interested in crypto then at least they'll be part of something genuine vs. flushing their money down the toilet of another pyramid company.
You have to show people that not only does crypto have value, but also they can redistribute that value and wear it on their sleeve. Someone needs to call up Jordan Belfort and tell him the hour of his great redemption has arrived.