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> You don't need to be dumb to fall for a dumb idea

I get you can do something stupid in a rush but the longer you have time to reconsider, the higher the likelihood that you "didn't just fall for a dumb idea". Bitcoin is 15 years old.

> Also, the average person is smarter than about 4 billion people.

Bitcoiners are drawn from a normal distribution and not from the bottom part of the distribution, so that argument doesn't really work here.



> Bitcoiners are drawn from a normal distribution and not from the bottom part of the distribution

I think it's objective truth to note that "Bitcoiners" are predominantly comprised of:

a) people conducting illegal affairs (don't read this as "illegal" in the sense of jaywalking)

b) technically illiterate people, down on their luck and hoping to get rich quickly

With those in mind, I would argue that "Bitcoiners" are instead drawn from the left side of most distributions.


Do you have any facts to support your assumptions a) or b)?




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