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 People I’ve spent many years talking to about Bitcoin who still don’t own any.

You’ve been wrong for years
I’ve been right for years
I know why I know I’m right
I’ll continue being right
But I was wrong once like you
You can stop being wrong too 
 I know some very very smart people. They've all heard about Bitcoin but none own any. I just don't get it🤷🏻‍♂️.  
 sum r just too busy with shit/day2day 
 must know Bitcoin 2go Bitcoin/imo/took me awhile 2 learn & secure 
 Stay humble and stack zaps 
 Also me

You could thank me now
Uh, go 'head
Thank Me Later yeah I know what I said
But later doesn't always come so instead
It's okay,
You could thank me now 
 > I was wrong once like you
💯 

i wonder what is more difficult for people: 
- critical and open thinking or
- admitting being wrong

luckily there's NGU™ technology to the rescue 
 It seems to me, the hardest thing is #uncertainty.

You meet a lot of people who are adamant #btc will keep rising. 

You meet a lot of people who think it will crash to nothing.

I do own some btc but I'm not categorically certain what it will do.

For me it's just a reasonable risk to take. My own guess is there is some, as yet to be determined natural level for #bitcoin. 

I'm making a reasonable guess it will be higher than I bought it. 

And it's not as unique as both sides claim either. After all we're spending a certain amount of time here. We're taking a #risk that time won't be wasted.

That's normal #human #behaviour. The only unusual thing about our time is how sure we are that we're right. 

That's the arrogance of our age.  
 Uncertainty is scary therefore people want to controll every aspect of their life hence the arrogant confidence.
However it is different when confidence comes from experience rather than stubbornness and that's true for cooking, mountain climbing and bitcoin etc. but the latter deals with money what is particularly itchy for most people. 
 stay humble stack sats 
 Arrogance is expensive 
 They’re failing the ego test 
 It’s the number one problem for all the intelligent people I know that haven’t bought yet.