You're going to lose a lot of friendships and gain others, and that's ok

I've just started having my first real friendship deteriorate over bitcoin. It's okay.

MOST, but not all, humans are jealous, envious, and scared creatures.

While some friends might be happy for you, if your lifestyle changes dramatically, it will cause friction. Imagine you have a group of friends where no one owns a home, and then 3 years later one guy owns a home and has a nice car. It will create friction. Beyond the money, bitcoin is an attack of the normal life. If you are a bitcoiner, you probably do not believe we should accept the status quo. You aren't afraid to have different beliefs. You are okay being the weird one.

What exacerbates these differences is how fast the financial and social changes are happening and why it happens-the person will say "I bought bitcoin" and to most people the only acceptable answer is "I worked for it". The bitcoiner did work for it -they put time researching and took their savings into bitcoin, and also took risk-but to most they will be viewed as lucky.

What hurt my friendship is the other person likes to be the top dawg and now is scared. His reaction to being scared is to lash out. So, if I could give advice-if you have friends who are not where they want to be financially (I guess this is 99% of us), and they are not going to buy bitcoin (or research no matter what you say), if you want to preserve the friendship, maybe it's better to just smile and nod.

Also, I have met several people who share common beliefs. Important: we disagree on a lot...but with several people I've met in the community, we share a common set of values. And perhaps that's what is happening-bitcoin is exposing that some of my friends and I don't share common values.