Why Do I Still Want To Touch Bitcoin?
After all this research,
I kept asking myself one question:
Why do I still want to touch Bitcoin?
Because honestly,
I did not start from excitement.
I started from rejection.
For years,
my opinion was basically:
- suspicious
- dangerous
- confusing
- not for normal people
And to be fair,
I still think parts of crypto look chaotic.
Sometimes even ridiculous.
But recently,
something changed in my thinking.
And surprisingly,
part of that shift came from ETFs.
I only recently discovered that in places like Australia,
people can gain exposure to Bitcoin through ETFs.
That honestly shocked me.
Because in my brain,
Bitcoin still belonged to:
- strange internet forums
- hackers
- tech nerds
- risky exchanges
But ETFs made it suddenly feel like:
“Wait… this thing entered the normal financial world already?”
That changed the atmosphere in my head.
At the same time,
this became even more confusing for me personally because I deeply respect:
Warren Buffett
and
Charlie Munger.
And both of them were famously negative about crypto.
Especially Buffett.
His logic actually makes sense to me.
Bitcoin does not produce cash flow.
It does not generate earnings.
It does not create products.
It is difficult to calculate intrinsic value.
And honestly?
I agree with much of that thinking.
So then why do I still feel curious?
That question bothered me for a while.
But recently,
I think I finally understood something.
I do not actually want to become a crypto fanatic.
And I definitely do not want to gamble my life savings.
I have already seen both extremes:
- people becoming rich
- people destroying themselves financially
So I understand the danger too.
But I also feel something else:
the feeling of the future arriving.
My children will probably grow up in a world where:
- digital currencies
- AI
- blockchain
- virtual assets
feel much more normal than they do to me.
And maybe one day,
I simply want to say:
“Your mum tried touching Bitcoin once.”
That’s all.
Not because I fully believed in it.
Not because I became a crypto evangelist.
But because I did not want fear alone to decide everything for me.
That feels important somehow.
Especially because history keeps repeating this pattern.
People once said:
- the internet was dangerous
- social media was pointless
- AI was impossible
And now all of those things shape modern life.
So maybe Bitcoin is also part of a larger shift.
Maybe not.
Honestly,
I still do not know.
But what I do know is this:
I am not really chasing Bitcoin itself.
I think I am chasing understanding.
Because after this entire journey,
crypto no longer feels like “internet money” to me.
It feels like a strange intersection between:
- technology
- economics
- politics
- psychology
- energy
- fear
- greed
- hope
all colliding together.
And honestly?
That is probably why I still want to touch it a little.
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