ldw on Nostr: “The most powerful stream of water cannot add one single drop to a vessel that is ...

“The most powerful stream of water cannot add one single drop to a vessel that is already full. One might succeed in explaining to the dullest of men the most difficult of problems, if he had no previous conception in regard to them; but it is impossible to explain to the cleverest man even the simplest matters, if he is perfectly sure that he knows everything about it.”

— Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You (1894)

quoting note19n2…5yyr

It’s true. The biggest impediment to understanding bitcoin is not intelligence. It’s ego.

You have to re-assess something you previously dismissed. You have to buy in late compared to what you could have done earlier, and accept that. You have to embrace the fact that you are but a tiny node on a network that nobody controls.

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