I just want to share a conversation I had today. As many of you know, I'm an older retired guy, and so are most of the people I know. For whatever reason, my oldest friends are urban, liberal democrats. I don't mean this as a disparagement. Over the years we just have learned to accept each other's political differences. Of course I couldn't help talking to them about bitcoin in the past, and I've been laughed off more often than I can remember. In fact, I don't even bother bringing it up anymore.

Today I got a call, out of the blue,from one of my buddies. He asked about bitcoin. He's a retired, successful guy. I was shocked. I asked him why he's interested now, and he told me he has been reading about it. Of course he asked about the ETFs. I should have just said fine, but of course I engaged him in an attempt to convince him to buy real bitcoin, self custody, etc. In the end, I think he plans to buy the Fidelity ETF, since I begged him to at least avoid BlackRock, and he agreed to also buy a little bitcoin through a dca on cash app. Not perfect, but better than nothing.

Why am I posting this? I feel it's significant because this is the first liberal democrat I know who has expressed anything other than complete hostility towards bitcoin. I think Elizabeth Warren is a big reason. Perhaps I'll see more of this.