Bitcoin lets you have freedom. You know how sometimes your dad will tell you to do things you don't want to do? Well, with enough bitcoin, it lets you say "no" to a lot more people and simply carry on as you see fit.

Now, you may decide that your father provides some useful guidance and want to listen to him even if it is not out of feeling compelled to do so (being a bitcoiner means the odds are good he is smarter than most dads so you are rather fortunate there -- you picked a good one), but nothing stops you from listening to him even while having the choice not to.

At 12, it is easy to simple to find yourself going with what the natural environment guides you to do without questioning the nature of that environment or how it came to be. Are the actions you take truly the ones you think have merit?

Now perhaps you are thinking having freedom sounds nice... but $100 of bitcoin, even if it grows 10x tomorrow, only buys you so much. If you had to pay for all your food and pay for your rent, you would quickly run out of money. At 12, it is harder to earn money than it is for an adult -- but if you pursue a "normal" path that ends with you going to college, you will be earning money at age 22, and by that time, the dollar might have collapsed and the value of bitcoin might have grown 1000x.

So that is what you face: 1) pursue education and find your earning potential in bitcoin terms is very low; 2) attempt to build a valuable business immediately under the assumption that yes, it won't be as big, but will it really be 100x or 1000x smaller than what you can build in a decade? Or 3) Realize that I am just some random person on the internet posing the question in particular way and the reality is that you can do absolutely anything that the laws of physics permit ;)

[2 weeks later, maybe: "Dirac, did you talk my son into dropping out of middle school to start stacking more sats?" 😂]