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RE: Taking control of your Bitcoin in less than 10 minutes.
Yeah, it's strange to come across people saying they keep their assets "offline" when actually their assets are never offline. It's all about the keys.
Andreas Antonopoulos created a lot of great content on this topic. I can only recommend to anyone to watch his older videos on YT. I've learned a lot from Andreas in my early days in this space. Managing my own keys was one of those things.
Thanks for the tip, I might check out this guy.
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I found this video. I think it's a reupload of the one I watched like 10 years ago. Thanks to Andreas I've survived Mt.Gox, Mintpal, Cryptsy, Paybase, Cryptopia and yeah, now FTX.
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Probably one of the biggest misconceptions newcomers have when being first exposed to this space. Also one of the first things I try to explain whenever someone asks me about Bitcoin.
Seeing Bitcoin as a commodity is another one of those misconceptions (imo). It has this touch of "investment fear" to it when viewed from that perspective. When I talk to people about Bitcoin I try to talk about it as an actual currency. A "foreign" currency but yet, just a currency. Thus "it's just money". I tell people when they buy their first sats they are basically engaging in a foreign exchange, one for another, just like you swap when you travel abroad.
How someone sees Bitcoin makes a big difference imo and you can take away a lot of fear and reservations if you talk to people about it in that way.
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