Back before I started looking in to Bitcoin, I'd watch television shows where gangsters or spies would be carrying around a suitcase filled with blocks of cash, and I'd think, "Wow, what a lot of money. That could get you a large house, or a sports car, or perhaps a small island off the coast of Greece."
Now when I see the same suitcase I can't help thinking, "Wow, a bunch of paper, printed by a government, valuable because people think it's valuable. And not as valuable now as it was when the program was being filmed."
Bitcoin has really damaged my suspension of disbelief. It's funny to think that for four decades I never really though about what cash actually was. Like most people, I just used it to buy groceries, and implicitly assumed it would be as valuable tomorrow as it was today.
That's why I think Bitcoin is going to be a game-changer: just like the internet, just like affordable cars, and just like the electric lightbulb. But with Bitcoin the real impact is yet to be seen.
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