Neuroticism acting up. Tried so hard to convince my family to buy bitcoin.

I entered the market in June 2021, and when Bitcoin went crazy late 2021, many people followed me after I shared my knowledge about it. However, as you can see, altcoins became popular, and I, too, was in altcoins for a bit too long. I made some crazy gains, but held slightly too long, so I also lost quite a bit of money. In March 2022, I moved all of the altcoins to Bitcoin, but by that time, no one believed me anymore. When I mentioned that I stepped out and they should too, they were surprisingly doubtful of Bitcoin and thought it was either their altcoins or no coins.

Fast forward a year later, I am thousands of hours deep into the hole. I know so much, yet still so frustratingly little; the current study I am nearly finishing has been almost neglected. Architecture and engineering are incredibly beautiful and important subjects, but Bitcoin just felt more interconnected with everything. More fundamental to our society. And if you don't believe this, it certainly is still such a no-brainer, considering gold's current valuation/market cap (empirical evidence) and Bitcoin outperforming gold in any characteristic seen in money (rational evidence)

Anyway, you can imagine, at this point, I was trying my best to convince them. And of course... everyone around me doubted bitcoin.

I tried so hard to convince my family, especially my older brother. I gave all the evidence I possibly could, I tried explaining as much as they'd let me, showed videos about Goldman Sachs bankers discussing the asset, explained its close relevance to gold and how logically Bitcoin fits in the grand scheme of things (like the invention of the internet, the computer, the transistor, the steam engine). But also how it fits in terms of the development as money, like Rai stones, beads, grains, bronze. Even how today's computers already operate the digital banking space, and that Bitcoin's security is magnitudes greater than any bank in existence. Then I tried explaining economics, the austrian school of economics in particular. I tried explaining how the best technology usually beats its weaker competitors, I tried everything. I tried showing the technical analysis side of things, how you should view bitcoin on a logarithmic graph, how the current "risk to reward" ratio has never been better than at any point in bitcoins history, I tried fucking everything.

On top of that, I'm the only highly educated person in my household, too.

Yet, no one believed me.

Reflecting on all this, and coming to the reason why it makes me sad: they all completely lost trust in my ability to define the truth. Right now, I've been feeling in a low mood for quite some time, despite doing well financially. I thought I would just write it off and perhaps make something out of it that's worth reading. Anyway, thanks for reading and perhaps let me know your thoughts or experiences, or tell me why I was naive to do this so others can learn.