For years, I lived a life of self-imposed limits. But the Bitcoin community has given me the confidence to share my perspective.
This is an opinion editorial by Mickey Koss, a West Point graduate with a degree in economics. He spent four years in the infantry before transitioning to the Finance Corps.
This one is for the common people.
Not sure who needs to hear this, but I was not invited to write for Bitcoin Magazine. How could the team know that I existed? I actually found your article submission link by accident while looking for a customer service email address. Then I came up with an idea for an article, I sent out a quick email and they liked the idea.
Suddenly, I had to write a draft. When it finally got going, I was hooked. Completely obsessed. I couldn’t get enough of writing and then the second article submission I submitted was unceremoniously “no.” When I asked why, I received a scathing review from the editor.
However, I realized that just because they thought the article sucked, that didn’t mean I did too. The criticism was for the content, not for me. It was a great learning point that allowed me to adjust my strategy and change my state of mind. Heck, this article is an adoption of a draft that was rejected by one of Bitcoin Magazine’s print editions. The publisher who turned me down is now the producer of a fairly large Bitcoin-focused YouTube channel. In fact, he just hired me to write behind the scenes for him. How’s that for full circle?
I didn’t even publish my first article through social networks. It took almost 10 articles of mine published for me to publicly allude to the fact that I wrote them when posting the articles on LinkedIn. I was scared. I was afraid of what my friends would think, what people would say, how they would react. I didn’t have the confidence to promote my own content. But the community was welcoming and supportive. They continue to be. Along with the support of my wife, the Bitcoin community is what gave me the courage to keep going. If nothing else, the friendships I’ve made along the way have been worth it.
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Who I am? I’m nobody. I probably don’t have to be here. But you are reading my article. It could easily have been yours. It can still be yours. Bitcoin has a hard cap, yes, but the Bitcoin community is not a zero-sum game.
Until I found Bitcoin, I had lived a life of self-imposed, invisible limits. I had resigned myself to the fact that I needed to invest early and often, and that I would have to pursue a prudent, average, low-risk career so that I could retire at 60 and live long enough to die as my grandchildren began to graduate from college. .
But I became restless. Bitcoin allowed me to see things I hadn’t seen before. It made me brave. It gave me the courage to take responsibility for my life and forge my own path. Bitcoin unlocked my potential. Storing your life force in a non-dilutive, permissionless, peer-to-peer monetary network is incredibly powerful.
Every person who tells me that Bitcoin is stupid, a Ponzi or a scam makes me even more optimistic. They are simple reminders that we are still so incomprehensibly early in this decentralized revolution. These NPCs have rarely spent more than a few minutes or a few hours doing oppositional-minded research to confirm their own existing biases. They are in prisons of their own making, opting for a once in a millennium chance to build something new.
The truth is that the biggest impediment in your life may very well be the self-imposed limitations in your own mind.
Eliminate your doubts with Bitcoin and become unlimited.
This is a guest post by Mickey Koss. Opinions expressed are entirely their own and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.
