Unlike missing a tech stock's upside, choosing not to hold Bitcoin is an active decision to remain in a fiat system that guarantees wealth erosion through debasement. Inaction means your financial situation and standard of living actively get worse.

While true comprehension of Bitcoin is rare (under 1%), adoption by entities like the state of Texas is driven by signals like price, longevity, and endorsements from trusted firms like BlackRock, not a fundamental grasp of the technology itself.

Bitcoin's finite supply is presented as a necessary boundary for a complete logical system, without which measurements become meaningless. This is analogous to physical constants like Planck temperature, which act as boundaries for physical laws, suggesting boundaries are essential for defining reality.

Unlike stocks with varying degrees of success, Bitcoin's outcome is binary: it either succeeds in maintaining its fixed supply and becomes global money, or it fails and is worthless. This simplifies due diligence to a finite set of core questions.

A core function of money is to be the 'final extinguisher of debt.' However, fiat currency is created as debt, meaning every dollar is both an asset and a liability. This inherent contradiction makes the entire financial system fundamentally fragile.

Because fiat currency constantly loses value, people cannot simply save. They are forced to invest and speculate in markets they may not understand, diverting time and energy from their actual jobs, just to prevent their savings from eroding.

The argument that 'Bitcoin fixes this' ignores human reality. Its volatility and complexity create an insurmountable adoption barrier for the average person. The only practical solution for the masses is holding governments accountable, not mass crypto adoption.

The call to "upgrade Bitcoin" is misguided. Since the ledger is a record of human decisions, the focus should be on upgrading our collective understanding of the system. A flawed mental model of Bitcoin will manifest as flawed actions and proposals on the network.

The biggest barrier to crypto adoption is the cognitive effort required to build new mental models for concepts like cryptographic security and decentralized ledgers. This process is slow and generational, much like the early internet, advancing "one funeral at a time."