It was a few days ago that I realized how I was stuck in a mental trap. Physicist R. Feynman once said that the easiest person to fool is your own self; I believe many modern crypto fans have fooled themselves. The lie that spread like wildfire since January 2017 was that we believe that crypto will be a revolution.

The proof is how obsessed we are with their prices.

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This fanaticism isn’t much different from that in politics or love. We wrap our impulses with a façade of patched arguments. We are taught to follow a certain ideology, and then we justify it, making sense of our reality. When we feel attracted to a person, we cover our natural impulses with the veil of nobility and chivalry. When an asset gives us triple digit percent returns we fool ourselves into believing headlines promising a revolution. Ask yourself what this revolution will change. Ask yourself how Bitcoin could have avoided the 2008 scams. Ask yourself if you trust crypto more than your bank.

Being obsessed with crypto prices shows how you care more about fiat than crypto. For most people the end goal is to sell crypto to move back to the old rotten financial system. Financial manipulators can move the price up and down as much as they want, but they can’t arbitrarily undermine the integrity of your wallet. Those who truly believe in the ideals of cryptocurrencies are more concerned about the protocol than the ETF. The reason crypto pulls itself back up every time is not because of speculators, but thanks to those who despise banks enough to make their own money.

If you still think that crypto is its price, you should probably move on to trade CFDs. Inflated prices make DApps less accessible, push hashrate into a bubble, increase fees that would otherwise be reasonable, and so on. Maybe the dream of crypto is unattainable, but the passion that drives its development is so much more than just greed.