The Day Before The Last Day

Tomorrow is the last email.

Before it arrives, one thought worth sitting with.

Somewhere in the world tonight, someone is having their first real conversation about money. They’re reading an article, or listening to a podcast, or asking a question they’ve been too embarrassed to ask before. They’re at the beginning of the same journey you’ve just completed.

They don’t know yet why groceries keep getting more expensive. They don’t know about the Cantillon Effect, or 1971, or what the Genesis Block said. They haven’t read about Mt. Gox or followed the arc from Cyprus to El Salvador. They haven’t thought about seed phrases or Lightning payments or what happens after all 21 million Bitcoin are mined.

They’re where you were on Day 1.

You spent a year getting from there to here. Three minutes a morning, every morning, for a year. You showed up when the price was down and the media was writing obituaries. You showed up when nothing interesting seemed to be happening. You showed up through work and life and all the ordinary reasons it would have been easy to stop.

Tomorrow’s email closes where Day 1 opened.

That’s intentional. The thing that made you open Day 1 — the feeling at the checkout — is the same thing that makes Bitcoin matter to the person who’s just starting their journey tonight. The world didn’t change. You just got a much clearer picture of it.

See you tomorrow.

— The Daily Bit