Finally convinced my friend to be open to bitcoin. She invested her first $500 today.

A while back I participated in BTC discussion about frustrations about how difficult it is to convince others about BTC. You can check my history.

Anyway, same friend is officially holding sats. It took about a few years. No pushing down bitcoin philosophy in convos. She also had a partner that was very supportive and encouraging her to invest in bitcoin. During this process, I thought it was important to understand her behavior as an investor and understand her patterns and values around money. I would categorize her as a very conservative investor and very risk averse. She is also a scientist, but was never curious enough to research what bitcoin was about.

With that said, I finally introduced her to the white paper because I thought that she needed proof of how bitcoin worked. I do think it was a contributing factor to her to finally decide on her own to own some sats. Anyway, I bring this part up because I have noticed that I meet a lot of people who are incredibly well educated and smart that still don’t understand how bitcoin works. Therefore, they’re not really interested in investing in it. Perhaps my experience is a very special case. I’m not really sure. But this event for me was a big deal. BTC is her first coin too.

I’ve asked her to ask her boyfriend to explain to her what self custody of BTC is as a date night activity ????