Bitcoin is Hope.

When you fall down the Bitcoin rabbit hole, and you really start to 'See the Bow', as it were, you start to believe it can have a positive impact on the world.

But this requires an audacious amount of generosity of spirit. To think that something, some piece of technology can come along and save us? If you say this to someone, you already sound insane. This is partly why orange pilling others can be so challenging.

To believe that humanity can change - and move towards using a system of money that is more fair, more transparent and morally superior takes a huge leap of faith. You have to first of all have spent a lot of time thinking about what the problem is, which already put you in a rare category of people, who care deeply enough about the world to want to improve it. Then you need to be open-minded enough and have such a huge capacity for the suspension of disbelief that you're willing to listen and learn and consider something new. You need to have a plasticity of mental acuity that allows you to imagine a better world. Bitcoiners are imagining a better world with magic internet money. And we sound like fools to the rest of the world.

Jack and the Beanstalk

The fairy-tale of Jack and the Beanstalk is a story about of hope and wanting for a better world. It's also a story about how people who have the audacity to dream are ignored, ridiculed and thought of as fools. In the story the young boy Jack, trades his family's cow for a hand full of "Magic Beans". When he gets home and excitedly explains the trade to his mother she scolds him and throws the beans out the window. But the beans take root and Jack tends to the plants... and they start to grow. Eventually they grow so large that they reach through the clouds and when Jack climbs the beanstalk he finds another world beyond the clouds. A world filled with riches and splendor.

I think this story has a lot of parallels with the story of Bitcoin. Early adopters are putting significant amounts of hard-earned capital into something that the rest of the world thinks is a Ponzi scheme. We must seem as foolish and naïve as poor Jacks mother thought he was. Foolish enough to believe that this magic technology that we traded hard earned savings for will someday grow and thrive and carry us to a world beyond our current reality. That a handful of these "magic internet coins" will someday be worth more than the family cow. Right now, for many of us, It's still just a dream - it's "Pie in the sky". But who knows? Perhaps one day, if we keep building our stacks, keep hodling and tending to our cold-storage coins. Maybe - just maybe, we'll be the one's climbing those bean stalks and finding a world beyond what we currently know.