Professors have become more interested in crypto. I have gotten questions about the monetary policy of #btc and have even been asked, “can you explain to me what a smart contract is?”

These simple questions are profoundly important to answer with care. Right now, for the retail investor, for the everyday people, for the people who have no reason to care about cool new technology-- there is not much use case. The use cases are being built everyday and people are slowly seeing the benefits of decentralization with things like SVB and Silver gate. Understanding that there will only be 21 million btc is big.

But there is so much more to this technology…

These use cases are things that the employed public will need to know. Even if the dots never connect for people, and they are not able to understand the benefits of blockchain and decentralization. Regardless of adoption, bitcoin is still a trojan horse. This is an idea I got from Alex Gladstein, and the idea goes like this:

The term "Trojan horse" comes from the story of the Trojan War, where the Greeks used a giant wooden horse to sneak their soldiers into the city of Troy and win the war. In the same way, Bitcoin is seen as a new technology that could undermine the existing financial system by allowing people to make transactions without relying on traditional banks or governments.

Teaching people about the deeper aspects of the technology is something that “we” must try to spread like a virus. We must be the zealots that explain the logical correlations between btc monetary policy and economic freedom. We have to try and help people connect the dots and understand where they are coming from, because their perspectives are the only thing that matter to them. The thing that clicks is different for everyone, and it is hard to see in the moment but you are building the blocks that will someday make sense for people.