> <i>Admitting that you've been fooled is one of the hardest things to there is. It takes humility, strength, self-reflection, and the swallowing of pride to acknowledge that you've been had. It's easier to blame someone else and double down—or to throw your hands in the air and walk away.</i><p>The first few years I knew about bitcoin I was able to ignore it. This only changed in 2015, when to my surprise, it still existed and also still worked without hinderance.<p>I’m very happy to have invested time into understanding it better since.