"Be careful with Bitcoin, it's dangerous!"
This is one of the first things I heard when I went to work today.
Nowadays I usually just nod when I hear things like that and hope it will go away.
Which it did.
I no longer feel the need to debate.
Blockchain will be in everyone's life all by itself.
I just prefer to invest my time with people that see it too.
What the person mend that said it is probably the speculative price at the moment.
They probably watched the news and saw 'respectable people' tell them it's a bubble or whatnot.
Now it's hard to argue for or against that because the price of Bitcoin can go up or crash at any moment.
I have seen this before.
But I'm also convinced that the person that said it has not spent one evening researching the technology behind Bitcoin and trying to understand it.
And yet, they have an opinion about it fully ready.
Now, I used to be like that. I can't lie.
When I heard about Bitcoin in 2011, I thought it was nonsense. A waste of time.
Only when I sat down and spend one evening researching it in 2013. It opened my eyes.
What helped was at that time I was researching where fiat money comes from. (which was a shocker in itself).
I spend probably months of my life trying to understand the technology and thinking of ways how it can be used.
I also bought my first Bitcoin around that time.
I invested in Bitcoin because I saw the value of the technology that drives it. Blockchain.
And I could not stop talking about it.
I must have told everyone I know. I drove them crazy.
Most of the time to deaf ears.
And eventually, I stopped talking about it.
But I kept learning by myself.
I taught myself about Ethereum and eventually STEEM and all other kinds of crypto.
Now, all that information is in my head. And I understand it. I live it daily.
But what's happening now is strange.
People are getting interested in crypto and asking me about it.
But it's not about the technology.
It's about in which crypto they should invest. It's about the quick money. (I sense this straight away)
And it rubs me the wrong way.
I just can't get motivated to explain it.
I was wondering if you guys have similar experiences like this.
Now, to talk about the technology with likeminded people is heaven.
The first time I truly understood this was Steemfest 1.
200 people like me in one location talking about crypto and not having to explain myself.
I loved it.
And since then it only got better.
I now get to talk about it almost daily in my vlogs, but also with 
And they all love it for what it is even though they are at various stages of understanding.
It makes all the difference.
I feel very fortunate.
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