Met a guy who spent years clowning on Bitcoin. Ran into him last week. Different person.

So this is kind of a weird one to post but whatever.

There's this guy I know, not a close friend, more like someone you see at industry stuff a few times a year. Smart dude, works in finance. For years he was THE Bitcoin guy in the room. Not a believer the opposite. The one who would not let it go.

Like clockwork. Every time BTC came up he had something ready. It's fake internet money.No intrinsic value. Greater fool theory, look it up. He'd say it with this little smile like he was doing you a favor.

Honestly a few of us just stopped mentioning crypto around him. Easier that way.

So last week I run into him at this small finance thing. We grab a drink and somehow Bitcoin comes up again. I kind of braced myself.

But he just… paused. And then he said yeah I was wrong about that one.

Just like that.

I asked him what changed. He said nothing dramatic happened. His brother had been quietly buying since 2020, small amounts, nothing crazy. He knew about it and kept sending him articles about why it was a bad idea. Brother stopped responding to the articles after a while.

Then one day he actually sat down and looked at the numbers. Not price the actual network, the adoption curve, what institutions were doing quietly. And he said something that stuck with me.

"I realized I wasn't analyzing Bitcoin anymore. I was just defending the position I'd already taken. That's not the same thing."

Guy's been in since late 2023. Still catching up he says, laughs about it.

I don't know. Something about running into someone who genuinely flipped like that, no drama, no announcement, just quietly changed his mind felt worth sharing here.