Disclaimer: Disregard all of the following if you can honestly say to yourself that you are doing as much as you possibly can to spread bitcoin.





Bitcoin's success is on YOU:

Understand that i am directly talking to YOU right now.

You're lurking Reddit threads without posting and just observing current events without completely understanding what exactly is going on in Crypto/humanity at the moment. I say with absolute certainty that you don't understand completely because those who really understand have realized bitcoins success is on *them* as individuals.

First, i need to make an important distinction.

The words 'You', 'us', 'community' 'a forest' are just aggregate concepts, like classes or objects in programming. They are groups of things that share the same attributes. When is class forest1 no longer class forest1? When it's not the code that you call forest1. When is a forest no longer a forest? I'm not sure but if there's 5 trees most people would agree its not a forest and if there's no trees you'd be called insane.

The forest is not an entity or thing, it's a bunch of trees in a geographical area. A forest is a concept that only exists within our minds.

The forest does not exist as it is an aggregate concept.

The BCH community doesn't exist as it is an aggregate concept.

The BCH community is YOU. Doesn't matter how long you've been here - if you're reading these words, you are part of it now.

All the well known figures in the liberty movement are well known because they carved their name into stone from **exactly** the same position that you are now in. The internet essentially makes humanity small world - and as long as we have freedom of speech we can't be DDOS'd.

Just like Bitcoin (Cash) BIPs get accepted by the majority, good ideas don't require force and anything you create that's valuable will spread like wildfire (Bitcoin adoption, Uber, Apple).





Watch the next 60 seconds in this clip:

Now, I'd like you to watch this.

Satoshi was the first dancer. He made the dance and he's dancing. To me, the second dancer was Roger Ver, which is why he's well known after Satoshi as he was the second dancer to many others. Maybe I'm the second dancer to you. The thing is - 95% of us are still watching to see what everyone else does.

Nothing is stopping you from being the next well known "Community member" in bitcoin. Thanks to the internet, whatever you do, whoever you talk to, if we are well connected, we are all only 3 leaps away from eachother. You can have a direct impact on bitcoin adoption because i can have a direct impact on adoption.

Roger Ver, Bitcoin developers, Jeff berwick, Stefan molyneux, Alex Jones, Rick Falkvinge, Edward Snowden.

I'm writing this article for them. They put in the effort and I benefited from it.

All of these are names but I (and likely most of you) sometimes forget that they are literally just other concioussnesses inside bodies. We look at them like they're public figures or something out of a movie but they are just other human beings that understood that they have to work so humanity can benefit. We look at them the same way you are looking at me right now and me at you.

There are billions of humans struggling to survive in the world that seem so distant to us - and they are. Most of them are in poverty and are unlucky enough to be born in a geographical area where a group of people that have a monopoly on force have made financial & social decisions for them at the point of a gun.

The difference between us and them is that we are on bitcoin. We can decide to be part of bitcoin, they don't have a choice yet.

You and I are similar because we have a choice right now. We are all individuals with different stories and some of ours will be similar but we are all connected and are part of bitcoin. Some people are on the edges of bitcoin and are in no position to spread it as they're struggling to survive. As i said, they don't have a choice to take action and save millions of lives by lifting us all out of poverty like we do.

The longer a mining node runs, the more connections it has. The longer you've been in bitcoin, the more introductions you should have made. Don't disable outgoing packets to new nodes or stop introducing it to others.

It's not like it's immoral in being a bystander in all of this - infact, i don't blame you. Many of us can retire comfortably and while there's no positive obligation for you to link r/btc to your facebook friends, you probably should. However, I'd argue that it's pretty aesthetically negative that those who made bank from bitcoin are sitting on their wealth given to them by Satoshi and idly watching the world pass by.

I stepped back on my wealth for a while as did Satoshi. Thing is - he thought that by finishing the protocol his job was done - he didn't think he'd have to work his ass off even more by teaching us how to use it and spread it for us. Like Socrates's work being way to complicated for society at the time requiring things to be explained in Laymans. Luckily for us, we have Craig Wright who has gotten remarkably good at speaking in Laymans!

Its entirely on *us* to have bitcoin make all of humanity extremely wealthy and better off.

We must WORK. The PoW of humanity is the wealth that we generate. Satoshi and websites like yours.org have given us the tools to create a global free-market. We must take risks and give this everything we have. So what if you get the occasional eye-roll or unpleasant conversation - if that's the cost of lifting billions out of poverty sign me up.

Like in the video above, we are the man dancing alone. We are first movers. Nobody wants to be a first mover as it involves risk. Just like how business must take risks, we must also take risks by spreading adoption. We must take action.

Accept bitcoin cash if you're a business. Ask if you can pay your suppliers in bitcoin or if your employees would like to be paid in bitcoin.

Write a business plan if you think you have great ideas that could make you rich & spread adoption: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2w5IJmrCaA

If you haven't read the bitcoin whitepaper, go read it at https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/whitepaper.

If you don't completely understand what the fuss is about BCH, go read the FAQ at https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5wwznc/please_read_our_frequently_asked_questions_faq/

If you're an average Joe like myself, say something. If bitcoin's community was all packed into a room together 95% of us would be faceless and just listening to other people talk. And that's creepy as hell.

All of us should be telling everyone we know about bitcoin and having debates with those on the side of core. If we actually explained bitcoin to everyone we knew, we would all understand it and be able to decide whether to use it or not. Complete and utter adoption. That's all it takes.

I know sometimes you don't feel like asking that Uber driver if he's heard of bitcoin but here's my advice: Remember that he will benefit from it along with everyone he knows and will ever know.













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Why there is nothing remarkable about me and why you should take my words seriously:

I was 18 (now 25) when i discovered bitcoin, i glossed over it, came back later, joined bitcointalk and posted on the 'introduce yourself' thread to purchase a trading bot. I started mining and made a bit of ROI (That was totally written off by my next big investment in GPUs by not understanding how fast the difficulty can go up) and have ridden the rollercoaster whilst being 0-100% invested in bitcoin along the way. I know there's thousands of you like me.

I trade on Localbitcoins for a living but there's nothing remarkable about me. Any of you could of done the same or wrote this article. All i know is that majority of humanity isn't in a position to make the same choice we have right now. I needed to speak my mind as I'm sure many of you resonate with these words strongly and are happy i wrote them. Feeling the need to say what hasn't been said is the entire reason i contribute to this community at all.

Humanity doesnt want to work. Our bodies don't want to exercise.