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The orange pill

19episodes
6first heard, 2021
142most recent, 2024
First said · Ep 14 at 06:57
“It shows whenever you're trying to orange pill anyone into the Bitcoin system, every single time, it's the same response: the most common retort to any person that I'm trying to onboard is 'I can't afford a whole Bitcoin.'”
Said now · Ep 142 at 18:31
“That's why you orange pill people, at least that's why I did. Why am I trying to orange pill people? Maybe if I went to the smartest people that I know, who are the most successful in the fiat sense, maybe they would show me where I was wrong.”

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