Almost none of my IRL friends are crypto weirdos. A few have bitcoin, but don't do anything with it; just HODL forever. Most people I know are no coiners who know nothing or can't wrap their head around the concept of permissionless, decentralized, self-custody cryptographic protocols.
And that makes it hard to build a parallel economy. Can't have an economy with a party of one, can you?
One of my most amazing experiences was attending Talent Land in Guadalajara, Mexico with a bunch of Hiveans.
photo by @ecoinstant
photos by me
We had contests in crypto, we settled cab, hotel and restaurant bills with $HBD effortlessly and we made a bunch of content about it: blog posts, snaps, videos, web2 posts. Why? part of the reason was because we know sharing educational, informative and marketing content about
- The Hive booth at Talent Land
- The onboarding app
- @vsc.network
- Rebates with @distriator
- @hivedebit
All has value and sharing valuable content is rewarded with value on HIVE.
Value-for-value.
The new standard for freedom economies.
When I plug into web3, I'm surrounded by people at different stages of their journey to freedom. Some are taking their first steps into web3 and others are OGs. I work with several crypto businesses and creators from around the world, moving bitcoin, Litecoin, @dashpay and a few others back and forth. So some people definitely get it, but it's a minority.
I understand (to a degree). It take's effort to get over the technological and conceptual learning curve and it takes EVEN MORE effort to do it over a long period of time, so it's no wonder people often dip their toes when there's hype and go back to normieland after a while where Venmo and credit cards work just fine, even though putting in the effort has much greater rewards.
I no longer try to bring people to the light either. People don't like it and I don't like it. If someone has a question and comes to me about it, I'll answer, but only if that's how it happens.
So I don't know.
Maybe this is the way it is.
Maybe we're destined to be the free minority who travels the galaxy and bump into other weirdos that use magic internet money from time to time.
Or maybe blockchain technology will evolve to the point normies are using it without their knowledge.
Who knows.
I'm just glad I found you weirdos.
