Bitcoin is only part of life. An important part, but not everyone can devote themselves entirely and completely to it, and it is also not necessary for each and every to devote themselves so selflessly to bitcoin.
There are likely ways that people are able to monetize their devotion to something like bitcoin, especially if you actual realize that bitcoin has a "monetary" component to it...
Hadn't you noticed?
It is best that everyone develops in what he is especially good at.
I don't know about that.
When I was a baby, I was especially good at sucking my thumb, but I did not develop that skill.
Last time that I checked, skills can be learned, refined and even discovered.. interests are similar, even though sometimes we might be able to identify what might be longer standing interests, but we are not always going to know the extent to which we might grow (or age) out of some of our earlier-in-life interests.
I'm not likely to be a good bitcoin core developer, so why would I get in the way of professionals?
If you had not realized, bitcoin touches upon a lot of theoretical and practical areas, and you do not even necessarily need to know how to code software in order to get involved or to be involved in bitcoin.
Go figure?
Who would-a thunk?
It seems to me that if we contribute even a small share to the development or adoption of bitcoin, it will already be good.
Speak for yourself.
Bitcoin does not take away from other interests that people might already have or develop, but there might be some kinds of interests (or even currently economically viable) areas of the economy that become less viable and/or less practical because of bitcoin..
If you are a young person then maybe it is more important to identify those areas, and if you are already established in a career, there likely would be a variety of considerations if a career change (or even retraining) might be considered as plausible, practicable and/or even prudent.
There are a lot of people who hardly even have any clue about what is bitcoin, even though they think that they do and there are even other people who are not sure if they know about bitcoin, even though they have heard the word.. maybe even several times.
To summarize, do you think that everyone should devote to bitcoin because bitcoin can also enable monetization?
Ultimately, I am not really into telling people what they should do, since it is my perspective that people need to choose for themselves what they are going to do, when they are going to do it and how much they are going to do.
When it comes to bitcoin, I do tend to suggest that people get the fuck off of zero, and start with a consideration of 1% to 25% allocation into bitcoin, especially if they already maintain some kind of an investment portfolio, and they surely have to figure out their own level of allocation to bitcoin and their way(s) to get to their preferred allocation, even though 1-25% seems to be a good place to start such considerations of how much to end up allocating towards bitcoin.
Of course, society as a whole gets to bitcoin monetization more quickly with greater bitcoin adoption, so there are a lot of advantages to the ongoing building of bitcoin network effects (like those
outlined by Trace Mayer in 2015).
Many of us longer-term bitcoiners already realize that bitcoin is quite likely the best (most sound) money ever invented, and at the same time realize that it can still take a decently long time for the broader population to figure that out - and so yeah, still being at way less than world wide adoption tends to show how early we are in terms of the level of bitcoin adoption - even while bitcoin continues to grow and grow and grow.. and sometimes seeming slow progress.. but still it seems to be mostly inevitable that bitcoin is going to pretty much take over the whole world in terms of becoming the world reserve currency.. even though it could take a couple hundred years to accomplish - even while it is also possible to happen much more quickly too.. even within a few years would be possible, even though shorter time lines would likely be way more disruptive and perhaps result in explosiveness and violence, which probably would not be a good way to go.. which would have included something like the $1 million in 90 days price prediction having had come true.. it was surely possible, but would have been quite scary to go that far in that short of a period of time.
Perhaps I really do not understand everything about bitcoin, and then it is not scary, because no one stands still, and sooner or later I will learn enough.
If you recognize bitcoin as a place (a thing) in which you should try to devote/invest a decent amount of your time, energies and value, then you are likely way further along than a lot of people (seemingly the overwhelming majority of the world's population, since it seems that probably less than 1% have figured that out and started to act upon it), and since bitcoin has so many angles (perhaps touching many areas of life, if not having a potential to touch all areas of life), I doubt that you can really know about all aspects of bitcoin.. even though you may well be able to still get some senses in the various ways that it is both important and a significantly awesome paradigm-shifting phenomena with a lot of real world impacts to have figured out ways to be able to transact digital value without a third-party intermediary.
Probably a good attitude towards bitcoin is to try to continue to learn about it and to stay involved in whatever ways that you can, and you are likely to continue to learn - yet at the same time, many of us know that we have to make sure that we are able to make money too in order to make sure that we are able to achieve our various basic needs.
However, I am sure that money in any form is not all that matters in this world.
Bitcoin is not only money. It includes information transaction, and also the ability to transact information in ways that no one can stop you (while being able to attach value to it that cannot be duplicated - which was not possible before bitcoin either), which surely has potential to facilitate a kind of freedom (and truth).. and perhaps god?... hahahahaha.. not meaning to get into blasphemy..
or religion for that matter.
Of course, there are a lot of things in life (and in the physical world) that might not directly be affected by bitcoin, but since we live in a modern society, there may well be a lot of ways that your ability to enjoy some of the other things that you appreciate in life will be touched upon by bitcoin.. sooner or later (if they are not already touched upon.. bitcoin is already out of the bag and having a lot of ongoing effects on the world.. even if people are not necessarily realizing it).
What do you value?
The items in Maslow's hierarchy of needs in some variation of the order presented therein? Nothing wrong with that.. and nothing wrong with striving for more than one thing at a time, even if you may well might need to make sure that you have food in your stomach (or air in your lungs) before you are even interested in the higher order needs (desires/wants) such as self-actualization.
Does bitcoin touch upon those things or not? That's up to you to figure out and to figure out how much you believe that it might be worthy of your time, energies and value to be figuring out more about bitcoin or if you might believe that your time, energies and value might be directed towards some other endeavor(s) that you believe to be more important.. hopefully for your own sake (and well being) you do not choose some dumbass shitcoin to direct your energies.. hahahaha
Moreover, money is only a small part of the important. Yes, money is involved in a significant part of other important processes, and here the influence of bitcoin cannot be overestimated, but money is only part of the processes, not the processes themselves.
Fair enough.. and if you are comparing a fucked up money to a good money, are you going to make some choices in regards to which one you are going to spend first and which one you might save up? It is not necessarily an all or nothing choices since it does not hurt to have options in terms of our spending abilities.. or maybe we might not be safe if we do not safeguard our value.. so we might want to be careful how we present ourselves in the real word and in the internet in terms of how well we might be guarding our coins or how blingy we might be presenting ourselves in the real world or if we choose to build a garage to park our car, are we going to buy a nice (and lasting garage) or some shitty kind of a garage to store our hookers, lambo and blow?
Of course, I know much less about bitcoin than many of those who discuss various issues on this forum, but I know much more about bitcoin than almost all my acquaintances outside the forum, because many do not even know basic things about bitcoin. It would be strange, given this understanding, to assume that everyone will suddenly devote their lives to bitcoin, and that anything good will come of it.
If you are acting upon asymmetric information that is valuable then you are likely to profit in a lot of ways from that, and you do not even necessarily need to hoard the information that you have - because it can surely sometimes take people a long-ass time to figure out the various ways that things are valuable that might be different than they had expected, and surely even most of us should still be attempting to learn along the way.. it is not as if we know all things and it is not even as if we are necessarily completely correct in our views of bitcoin or the place of bitcoin in the world in terms of where we are at based on where it has come from and where we might be going.
I am far from thinking that I know everything or even much enough about bitcoin, and perhaps in time, when I learn more, my opinion will change, but so far I do not see the point for everyone to devote their lives completely to bitcoin.
Yes.. choose the amount of devotion that is right for you (and others will figure out bitcoin at their own pace too), and it seems to be a good idea to try to stay humble about these matters, even though sometimes it can also be difficult to stay humble because many of "us" including yours truly, like to enjoy various aspects of our humanness, which includes some emotions and sometimes some over indulgences, too....
I also don't mind sharing information with people about bitcoin, and yes, I recognize and appreciate that it can surely take a lot of people a long time to come around to bitcoin, even though it seems to me that empirical evidence seems to show that bitcoin is mostly ongoingly growing - even though surely historically there seems to have been hype-cycles contained therein too. I don't see any reason to speculate that bitcoin's growth is going to stop or that the hype-cycles are going to stop.. and the growth and hype-cycles seem nearly inevitable.. but hey whatever, you can see what you like and act in accordance with how you believe that your time, energies and value should be spent (allocated/apportioned).. whether that is some, all or none.. that's your choice what to do and whether or how to talk about what you are doing whether in this forum (thread) or in various places in your real world life.
