I'm a real youngster in the cryptoverse and learn each day, recently i watched an interview with Andreas Antonopolous and how he described his first contact with Bitcoin and the development around, how he read for months everything possible about the technology and how he lost weight in the double digits until it got unhealthy for him. For me it was similar, like a sparkle in my brain.. with many sleepless nights.. i couldn't understand why i didn't heard about all that before.. it was like a portal to a whole new world in June. Everytime i think about that i always remember of a picture in the ASM 7/90 from Ultima 6 - The False Prophet
The caption is german means translated:
"What do we expect on the other side?"
And the funny thing is meanwhile i'm so used to cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology (without real deep knowledge in informatics but knowing the basic principles) that if i have smalltalk with someone who talks about the future and i start with blockchain i see often wide open eyes of surprise with a expression "What the heck is he talking about?" and i'll do my best to explain things with moderate success. I often hear bubble, speculation, no real currency, will be prohibited by government.. what then? should i buy bitoin? FUD sprayers did a good job to withholding people which are more intelligent than i.. that feels like the picture with the portal.. i left the regular world in a dark night behind me and no one noticed that and it feels sometimes lonely because there is no one who knows about that or wanna know about that.. it's like a well guarded secret or something many just ignore still today. I'm just wondering after all.
But the more i read, the more i see the development it is clear that will change the world and will go mainstream, maybe in a decade. And we will see also further hype cycles like the current one. A trader called masterluc predicts a price increase of Bitcoin in the current cycle to $40,000-100,000 til the next bubble will burst. After that blockchain technology is again a few steps further than today and will increase it's worldwide footprint. That's my belief after all.
Thank you for this motivating post, which reminded me of my humble and fascinating beginnings!