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"If Bitcoin were that good, more people would own it." That sentence is right about people and wrong about Bitcoin. The reason is a piece of physics, and it has nothing to do with anyone being stupid.
Picture a ball in a valley. There is a deeper valley next door, with a ridge in between. The ball stays in the shallow one forever. Not because it prefers it. Because from where it sits, every direction is uphill. Minds have the same shape.
Your model of money is a valley like that. Salary, rent, pension, the price of everything you own, all quoted in one unit. From inside, staying put really is the cheapest option. That is not denial. That is a correct local calculation.
The ridge has a height, and the height comes from one thing: how certain you already are. Certainty is what builds the wall. Which is why the most confident skeptic is the hardest to move, and the guy who never thought about money flips in a weekend.
So arguments mostly bounce. You do not debate a ball uphill. What moves it is the valley filling in: an inflation year, a frozen account, a currency that halves while the salary does not. Reality does the arguing, and reality does not get tired.
Which is why adoption should not look like a gentle trend. Everyone sits in the same valley, so when it floods, it floods for everyone at once. Balls do not drift over ridges one by one. A whole cohort sits, and then drops.
So the crowd not being here yet says nothing about Bitcoin. It says how high the ridge still is. Staying put is physics, not stupidity — and that cuts both ways: when the water rises, the move is fast. More in Why Bitcoin Wins.
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