I think it's a bit more of the former, a bit less of the latter. Everyone is overconfident nowadays, myself included. It's something I try to manage.

It takes a bit of a retard to not understand everything about the world you hate yet pivot to Bitcoin, especially going all-in maxi and talking about nothing else all day. It's often belief or dissatisfaction with the system that drives people into this realm, not a 20 years study of Austrian Economics to then come to the logical conclusion that Bitcoin is superior to fiat. And this isn't bad, because we'd have no young people in the Bitcoin space if it were like that - and we need the young people: can't have boomers and Gen X do everything because we're slow af and many of us have too much to lose.

I think that your objections to Seb's book were clear (and imho valid.) Did you ever get to discuss it with him?