Heard the sweetest orange pill story recently, all the way from Turkey:
Young Turkish guy
wakes up one morning around 2021 with a notification on his phone asking for acceptance of WhatsApp’s new terms and conditions, a permission for nosey noses to be able to access all sorts of things on his phone.
It’s early in the morning and this pisses him off. He presses ‘decline’ and is promptly locked out of his WhatsApp.
This pisses him off even more, but this time into action, and he starts researching alternatives and educating himself instead of just bitching and complaining.
This then leads him to into the world of open-sourced alternatives that actually allow for freedom of communication and privacy by default.
Soon, he is on Fediverse and that’s where he stumbles onto Nostr. He innocently gets on #Nostr just to try out some protocols. I’m sure you can guess the rest if you’re a Nostriching bitcoiner, but I’ll continue. :-D
At this point he knew a bit about cryptos. Yes, cryptos the things you buy and sell to make money. The number go up thingos. Cryptos like bitcoin. (Keep reading dear maxis, there’s something here for you.)
Looking around Nostr as a newbie, he sees all these lunatics raving and celebrating the price plummet of bitcoin.
This is a bit non-sensical to him—why would anyone be happy if the price of a crypto falls? Ideally you buy for less, sell for more, then celebrate... They cray-cray?
He asks the shiny happy orange people, “Why are you guys celebrating? What do you know that I don’t?”
And so it begins—the orange pill delivered bit by bit: The Bitcoin Standard, The Sovereign Individual, “don’t trust, verify,” “bitcoin, not crypto.”
His life changes from that point on, very suitably and symbolically, in lightning speed.
It’s been a bit over two years. He’s now interning at #Blink , has been helping organize bitcoin conferences and will be making his debut as a speaker in a #bitcoin conference later this year.
This kid is only 24 years old!
This gives me goosebumps as well as so much hope!
The new orange dawn is here, illuminating the new generation.
It will be a beautiful new era!
Taylan kardeş—you are an absolute star! Thank for sharing your story with me. I’m sure it’ll make everybody smile. Yolun açık olsun! 🙏
