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Being slightly passionate about watches and bitcoin, I keep thinking about bitcoin in the same way I think about watches. Why did people need watches when they already knew whether it was morning, afternoon or evening?

The watch industry grew gradually because society became more dependent on precise time. Work, transport, productivity, efficiency and eventually competitive advantage made precision more valuable.
So why bitcoin now when we already have bank accounts, credit cards, loans and a financial system that mostly works?

I think that is a much more interesting way to approach bitcoin. Not “will the price go up?”, but what does bitcoin actually allow you to do or own that the existing system does not? And if you cannot answer that yet, maybe there is nothing wrong with simply not owning it yet.

There are teenagers and pre-teens today who are growing into a world where Bitcoin has always existed, for them.

For them, bitcoin is not some strange new experiment. It is more like the internet was for many of us: something that was already there, already part of the world, and already understood at a basic level.

Our generation grew up with the internet as something that increasingly felt normal. Then, over time, we helped digitize almost everything that had not been digital before: communication, media, shopping, work, banking, money, and now even intelligence.

That makes the next generation exciting to think about.

If they grow up with bitcoin and blockchain as part of the basic digital landscape, what will they eventually make mainstream? What systems will they rebuild, simplify, or replace once they are the ones leading companies, governments, financial institutions, and communities?

Bitcoin does not need everyone to understand it perfectly today. It just needs time to form the sea where oceans, whales, and every living organism can thrive. Because in the end, the sea is more powerful and lasting than any whale living in it.