Damus
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BitcoinMendocino
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The first time you help someone set up their own wallet, watch their face.

Not when they buy. When they send. That moment they move their own money, to their own keys, and realize no bank approved it, no app could freeze it, and nobody had to say yes.

Something shifts. They stop seeing Bitcoin as a number that goes up and down. They start seeing it as theirs.

We've watched grandparents do it. Teenagers do it. People who swore they were "not a tech person" do it in about ten minutes.

That quiet click of understanding is the whole point. Money you actually own, that answers to you and no one else.

You can't hand someone a feeling. But you can hand them the keys, and let them find it themselves.