Bitcoin Taught Me What Decades of “Education” Never Did

I have studied all my life. One never stops learning; there is always something that stimulates curiosity and a willingness to learn. But I was an arrogant “ignorant” – literally from the origin of the Latin verb “ignorare”, to be unaware of – until I learned what Bitcoin is. I discovered Bitcoin the “old” way—more appropriately, through the classic approach: the good old self‑taught process of going down the "Bitcoin rabbit hole". As many old‑school Bitcoiners would say, if you invest 10 hours, you know nothing; 100 hours, you think it’s about speculation; over 1,000 hours, then you start to get it and soon become a “hodler.”

I spent well over 1,000 hours in my Bitcoin rabbit hole before I bought my first one. I can safely say that until that moment - despite decades of study, a law degree, bar admission, a postgraduate degree, and a keen interest in geopolitics, economics, and finance - I was still a total ignorant and arrogant in my thinking of being “well educated”. In fact - just like 99% of the people I know outside the Bitcoin community, including those in my profession, my friends, and acquaintances - I had ignored the most fundamental thing in life: I did not know what money truly is.

You see, it is not about a textbook definition. It is about opening your mind to realize what years of standardized economic, financial, and political curricula have told you about money and the role of government is, mostly, a lie.

Suddenly, when you learn what Bitcoin is, you realize what money really is, and you start questioning everything you have learned and been told since childhood. Bitcoin has literally opened my mind. Counterintuitively, perhaps, the less traditionally educated you are, the quicker you may understand Bitcoin. The less time you need to detoxify your brain from false notions fed to you all your life.

Instinctively, a farmer in a developing country will grasp money, inflation, and Bitcoin far more easily than a Harvard graduate with a master’s degree. Over time, I have realized something profound: there is no one who truly understands money - and therefore understands Bitcoin - who does not hold at least some Bitcoin. The moment you genuinely grasp what it is and what it reveals about our fiat world, ownership becomes inevitable. Once you see it you cannot un-see it. If you do not own bitcoin, it simply means you haven’t yet understood it and are still leaving in the “bubble of lies” you are being fed daily. And there is no amount of talking, explaining, or teaching that can make someone truly understand it. It is an inner, deeply personal process of maturation. You can only plant a seed; the willingness to learn and understand must come from the individual. What’s required is a vivid form of intelligence - that cannot be measured simply with an IQ test, but one grounded in openness, flexibility, curiosity, critical thinking, and the ability to grasp complexity rather than mere complication. Again, it is also detached from the individual level of culture and education. Ultimately, Bitcoin has been a moment of enlightenment - something that many Bitcoiners have experienced and described in similar terms.

Once I started to question everything, I started paying closer attention at who the players are and what their incentives are. I studied monetary history, which is far more telling and transparent than history itself. Through monetary history, you can plainly see who the players are and their incentives. You see how money has, in reality, shaped ALL historical events - and the lies and narratives built around those events to hide truths that would have been obvious had one simply looked at three basic elements: the players, their incentives, and money flows.

Want some recent examples? (1) Then just look at the “war on terrorism” and the “forever wars”, or the most recent Russia-Ukraine conflict or Israel' s wars in the Middle East or, why not, other events such as the Covid-pandemic, where profits, money and control over the population played a key role.

Once you understand that history is a carefully crafted bundle of lies told by the winners, then you know that, money doesn’t lie - and money flows uncover all their lies.

A famous judge, known for his fight against the Italian mafia, used to say: “I follow the money.” He was right. When he was blown up in his car with his wife and bodyguards - along with half a mile of highway near Palermo - everyone immediately said that the mafia was clearly the culprit. Who else, right?

Well, most people still think the mafia did it. Of course but, who is the mafia anyway? They stopped following the money.

Learn what Bitcoin is, and start questioning, everything they tell you.

Not your keys, not your bitcoin.

(1) Some bits and pieces of enlightening recent monetary history - which uncover the lies of the “war on terrorism” and the “forever wars” – are narrated in my book Bitcoindollar the Dawn of American Hegemony in the Digital Era .

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