Welcome to my ramble, I hope you enjoy my little piece.

I found this new podcast on fountain the other day, called Rock Paper Bitcoin and one of the hosts said 'people new to Bitcoin wouldnt listen to a podcast like this' and it made me think about the levels of learning or knowledge you go through as a Bitcoiner.

So I'm by no means an expert and there's always more to learn, but as you go down the rabbit hole, there are so many places that everybody goes past at the start and then depending on your journey, there are probably infinite wormholes you can travel through.

I would say, the big ego's, the big names, the main characters of Bitcoin is one area, where you learn about who these people are and then you make a decision about what their intentions are, not saying good or bad, what I'm saying is, you MUST go through that journey in order to be able to make that decision.

And I really like the MPB host's ramblings about, could Satoshi have been transported back in time by aliens 👽, does hashrate have a more profound meaning that we just don't understand or appreciate yet. And does Bitcoin have a philosophical message for us that will take over a century to tell us.

So that's why it's so difficult to explain Bitcoin to someone new because, you can't explain it, you have to see it for yourself (going morpheus slightly) and so, that is the journey if one decides to take it.

Also I'm slightly reminded of another pod I saw last week with @k00b, where he was describing the etiquette on Hacker News back in the day, and probably still to this day, I'm not an officianado on HN but there is definitely a subtle unsaid agreement on SN that if you don't have a base level of understanding, you probably wouldn't have stumbled across SN in the first place.

While I'm rambling about SN, if somebody posts something about 'there's this new [product] shill shill' I'll just wait for @justin_shocknet to wade in no holds barred and say it how it is, which is very cool, because you know where you stand then.

So to sum up, the further you go into the rabbithole, your way of thinking changes and the things you focused on before become meaningless, then new ways of thinking emerge, which then becomes interesting because you sit back and take a moment and realise, I had to learn all of this and spend this much time, to get to where I am right now. I literally couldn't explain it to someone in an hour, they'd have to go through it themselves.