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Admitting that you've been fooled is one of the hardest things to there is. It takes humility, strength, self-reflection, and the swallowing of pride to acknowledge that you've been had. It's easier to blame someone else and double down—or to throw your hands in the air and walk away.The first few years I knew about bitcoin I was able to ignore it. This only changed in 2015, when to my surprise, it still existed and also still worked without hinderance.
I’m very happy to have invested time into understanding it better since.
