aw man, a question I ask myself a lot

Bitcoin helps to act as a filter, among others. If I am speaking to someone who has thought a lot about the future, about privacy, about what wealth means, I know I can come to trust them. If I can sense that their mind has come up against the cultural program, faced the resistance or dissonance within it, and made a decision on their own for what their life will look like - I can trust.

and this seems to be replicated enough times to have an impact on the (still rather small) culture around it