Today, the United States celebrates Thanksgiving. Throughout the day, I have reflected on the value I place on my closest relationships and family, on the spiritual and temporal blessings, material comforts, opportunities, and employment I enjoy.
Thanksgiving is a United States holiday, yet far more than half the Life On Bitcoin audience is international. I am still choosing to write a Thanksgiving post, because gratitude is something which I believe should be shared.
When I came up with the concept for the Life On Bitcoin film, I had no idea how big or impactful our little side project would become. In many ways, we’re still discovering. Yet, we have been floored and humbled by those who have shared our vision and helped with this project.
Since Thanksgiving is about sharing gratitude, and, I think, acknowledging the role of others and of God in our lives, today, we want you to know that we’re thankful for each of you.
We’re thankful for our contributors and sponsors. We’re thankful for the internet and for the doors it opens, and for the global connections it makes possible. We’re thankful for innovators, risk takers, entrepreneurs, dreamers and doers. We’re thankful for cryptography and the promise it holds in shielding human freedom and privacy. More broadly, we’re grateful to be part of the global bitcoin community. The people of bitcoin are some of the kindest, most intelligent, proactive, and generous people we have ever encountered, and it is a privilege and honor to work among you.
We are also thankful to be a small part of, what I believe, could be a global revolution towards a more honest form of money. History is being made, and the advent of crypto-currency, blockchain technology and the bitcoin protocol will one day likely be remembered and ranked with many other great technological leaps: the internet, the automobile, the telephone, the personal computer, and so on. It gives me chills to contribute a small role in it.
So whether you are in the United States or somewhere else in the world, Happy Thanksgiving.
-Theron H.