Good article and a lot of comments already. Comments range from bad to good but one thing is clear, there are people who want to understand Bitcoin but find it hard to understand. That is a problem we must address.
Really? The federal reserve obfuscated so well for 100 years that nobody understands their scheme ... yet everyone still uses it.
People need to understand how to use bitcoin and how it is better money ... that's all.
I kind of disagree here. Why is it better money? To understand why it's better and why you can trust the scarcity, you need to understand the technical details down to a certain level (the level at which you trust the properties of the building blocks).
For me, these building blocks are mainly "cryptographic hash function", "signing using asymmetric cryptography". I don't fully understand how these work internally, but I trust them to exhibit the relevant properties. From these properties, assuming a understanding of the further concepts of "proof of work", "transaction", "blockchain", follows the trust I have in the scarcity of bitcoins.
I believe that someone who didn't see for himself how he can trust that scarcity will not, in the end, trust it.
The federal reserve instilled the trust into FIAT by "regression" (used to be redeemable in gold), disinformation and regulatory capture.
I would like to be better than them and get people to trust bitcoin voluntarily and fundamentally by their own understanding of this truly revolutionary system.