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 I am educated in this, been in it over seven years & done a lot of learning. Just because you believe in something doesn't mean it will happen & bitcoin cannot succeed without more adoption, that is a fundamental fact & we haven't been getting new adoption so to keep saying "we are early" is just denying that fact. Everybody knows about bitcoin, it is over $1 trillion marketcap but it hss stalled in user growth. You can sit there and tell people to educate themselves but some educated people are beginning to ask if we might have peaked & it's a very reasonable question. It's the same influencers on the conference circuit, on the podcasts etc telling us the same things we heard 5, 6, 7 years ago. If we don't hit $100k (expectations are far higher prices) this bull run what will the reasons be? 
 I can give you my example: living in a hiperinflationary country like Argentina you star to realize very quickly the valueof of BTC. I started to buy back in 2020 with PESOS!!!! and for me, today, its just work perfectly.  
 Yes I appreciatethatt & even though the dollar is less infaltionary I did the same. My btc is a lot more valueable to me than the dollars I bought it with. However we are a tiny minority & bitcoin isn't growing. I first bought in 2017 & I don't know a single person who has bought any apart from times in a parabolic move in a bull run & then they stopped & not bought since. For sure bitcoin is more widely known & there's more people holding it since then but the growth is tiny, nothting like the growth spurt of the 1990’s internet the maxi's would have us believe was going to happen.