How did I miss Bitcoin?

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The revelation from JP Morgan: ‘The biggest U.S. bank will allow institutional investors to use Bitcoin or Ether as collateral for loans, Bloomberg reports, citing anonymous sources. The decision marks the continued evolution of CEO Jamie Dimon, who once referred to crypto as a “hyped-up fraud” and “pet rock.” In other banking news, Goldman Sachs launched an exchange-traded fund that seeks to approximate “private equity-like returns.”‘ -LinkedIn News

There was a season in our generation when wealth walked in the streets without disguise. It was called Bitcoin. It knocked on our doors like a friendly neighbor. Yet many of us, including this teacher, looked away. In my quest to be “pure” and academically untainted by the crypto wave, I avoided even holding it in my name. Today, I sometimes imagine: if one had allocated $1,000 and picked up 1,000 units of Bitcoin during its infancy, what story would we be telling now? It was a rare moment, the kind that generations do not see twice.

But we missed it. Why? Because the “experts” told us. They wrote papers, spoke on TV, and educated us that digital money was illusionary. And we listened. Yet today, those same experts are accumulating Bitcoin, building custodial vaults, designing ETFs, writing structured derivative notes around it. The same voices that dismissed it now shape the entry gates.

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Over the next decade, firms like JP Morgan, BlackRock, and Goldman Sachs will not just participate, they will price Bitcoin. They will set the effective “yield curve” of digital capital. And people will shout that the system is rigged. But let us be honest: nothing was rigged. We had the land before the industrialists came. But we refused to cultivate it.

How did I miss Bitcoin? I still do not have an answer. It remains one of the most baffling case studies of my personal economy. It was as if one was searching for diamonds in distant lands while the foundation of his own house was laid on diamond, and yet the eyes did not see. It reminds me of that classic story from Russell Conwell’s Acres of Diamonds, the man who sold his land to travel the world in search of wealth, only for the new owner to discover diamonds in the very soil he abandoned!

Truly, our generation held acres of digital diamonds. Bitcoin was not hidden. It stood before us, open and unassuming. But familiarity is a dangerous thing. Yes, sometimes the treasure you see daily loses its shine because the mind has not been trained to recognize value before the world proclaims it. So, when I ask myself “How did I miss Bitcoin?”, the silence in my heart is loud. Because the diamond did not hide, I simply did not look, and that is unfortunate!