I feel like some parts seem simple at first, but then you realize there’s a lot more going on underneath.
For me, there are still a few things that I had to go back and read multiple times before they started to make sense.
Curious how it was for others, was there something that took you a while before it finally clicked?
What part of Bitcoin took you the longest to actually understand?
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For me it was the 21M supply cap and why that’s important as it pertains to scarcity and value. That was at the beginning of my investment journey in general so I didn’t get it back then. Now I understand everything else but UTXO’s kinda still confuses me lol all the smart people recommend 0.01 minimum before transferring to cold storage so I follow that but still don’t fully understand why
Why is a sha256 hash safe?
Couldnt anyone just easily (re)create the same key?
The part where you shouldn’t waste your bitcoin and time on shitcoins.
Mining difficulty adjustment for me.
The basic idea is simple, but it took a while to really understand that it’s not predicting anything. It’s reacting. Every ~2 weeks, Bitcoin adjusts difficulty based on how fast the last blocks were found, pushing block production back toward a ~10 minute average.
That’s what keeps it stable while hashrate, hardware efficiency, and miner participation constantly change. More hash comes online, blocks speed up, difficulty rises. Hash drops off, blocks slow down, difficulty falls. It’s a continuous feedback loop, not a forecast.
The math.
“Time in the market beats timing the market.”
And: “There is only (one) Bitcoin. All other ‘’’crypto’’’ are shitcoin.”