Dan Held Shared: When you go down the Bitcoin rabbit hole you have to learn about: Economics/Money, Game theory, Politics/Law, Trading and investing, Open-source software, Computer science, Digital/physical security.

Bitcoin is the greatest teacher to ever exist.

Community Response:  Nature is the greatest teacher. Bitcoin is the solution to central banking problem.  However, it didn’t solve anything.

I was with you until the very last sentence.  Bitcoin is not the educator.  You are, Dan.  Bitcoin offers a multidisciplinary lesson plan.

I disagree. Bitcoin has been much better than my fiat college education. But the best teacher ever to exist was Christ. Full Stop.

As a software engineer, I am a big fan of Bitcoin. As God’s child, I am totally dedicated to the greatest engineer of all; Christ. I would like to add that I believe Christ gave us Bitcoin as an escape for those of us with open hearts.

I love bitcoin for it’s hard money and liberty based principles, but as Robert Kiyosaki says, “Gold is God’s money, bitcoin is people’s money.” Bitcoin could be divinely inspired or it could be inspired from the opposite side of that.

Not to worry. Civilization is in this mess because we turned our back to God. I only recognize these miracles such as Bitcoin as gifts that our lord gives us to use as tools against the evil system. I think a lot of folks realize this. Some may not, but that has always been so.

Dan, you forgot memes. Without learning about memes you make no friends in the rabbit hole. True that.

You can merge my suggestion into rabbit hole core – it’s open source.  Putting in the pull request.

The great teachers to ever exist was Karl Marx, Lenin, Fidel Castro, Che Guevara Mao. They are those who lifted millions out of poverty. Bitcoin is Cool but the cycle of greed and power continues – Capitalism 2.0.

Yeah, that all sounds like too much work. I just stuck on a recurring daily buy and figure I’ll come back to it in 10 years.

Buying something every day will waste a lot of time, so why should we waste it? Purchasing Bitcoin is saving, not investing if you believe it will be the superior monetary unit.

So true, I couldn’t afford to go to college, I grew up poor with a single mother, I never understood monetary policy, basic economics, what money is, the history of money, gold standard vs fiat, why personal finance is a uphill battle. After the rabbit hole, I can go toe to toe with anyone in my daily life about The Fed, economics, interest rates, QE, inflation, the incentives that a Fiat currency creates, etcetera. I never paid a dime in understanding any of these, the information is out there, via books, podcast, articles and so much more.

Understanding Bitcoin is 25% about Bitcoin and 75% about the current economic and financial issues we are all surrounded by. Even if we are all wrong about the future of Bitcoin, I will never lose the wealth of information, I learned along the way.

What about decentralization? The ideal the blockchain was built around? This is why I’m looking into DAOs like BitDAO, the largest DAO-run treasury in the space funding the most promising DeFi projects in the space like Game7 and most recently EduDAO.

In some ways it teaches you what you don’t want for yourself. When you hear the politicians or professors speak against Bitcoin you say to yourself – I’m the opposite of that person in my values (even if I respect their right to be different to me).