There seem to be a lot of posters who automatically assume that if you've been around for a long time you're fooking loaded which must make those who know the truth groan.
That is because they are unable to grasp the fact there is a motivation other than greed that has drawn people into this sphere.
Isn't bitcoin built around an assumption that people are greedy (or at least a milder form of self-interested)?
So, accordingly, bitcoin seems to presume that individuals are going to engage in behavior that attempts to maximize their own best interest, and it so happens that a large number of individuals attempting to maximize their own best interest (aka greedy) causes bitcoin to become stronger.
Yeah, of course, some people have concluded that their own best interest has been to pump some shit coin or to suck off the nipple of BTC in creating a new product - by attempting to copy bitcoin or to deceive people into believing that they are bitcoin 2.0 or that bitcoin is defective in some kind of way, yet in the end, such value is still going to flow back into bitcoin because the deception and the ability to copy bitcoin tends to come off as disingenuine and inferior than just working on king daddy himself.
Could take 50 years or more to sort out, but everything largely seems to be going as planned in terms of individuals being greedy and acting in their own interests while bitcoin gets stronger and stronger, no? I am not afraid to admit that I like getting rich through bitcoin, while I have been attempting to pursue my own best (greedy) interests.
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