Bedrock 2.0 and the Attention Trap
Last week, I picked up my phone before bed to check a BTC position.
Twenty minutes later, I was still scrolling.
Not because anything had happened.
The position was fine.
The market was quiet.
I wasn't looking for a trade.
Yet somehow I had opened multiple tabs, compared different BTCFi opportunities, checked a yield dashboard, and read a discussion I wasn't planning to read.
Then I put my phone down.
Without changing a single thing.
That was the part that bothered me.
A few years ago, Bitcoin asked very little from me.
Buy it.
Hold it.
Be patient.
That was enough.
Lately, it feels different.
Not because Bitcoin changed.
Because everything around it did.
BTCFi keeps creating new possibilities.
New strategies.
New forms of utility.
New ways to put capital to work.
For a long time, I assumed that was pure progress.
Now I'm not completely sure.
Because every new possibility seems to arrive with a hidden requirement:
Attention.
Not capital.
Not liquidity.
Attention.
The strange thing is that I wasn't actually managing my Bitcoin that night.
I was managing the growing number of things Bitcoin could potentially do.
That realization came back while I was reading more about Bedrock 2.0.
Not because Bedrock created the trend.
If anything, it reflects a broader shift happening across Bitcoin finance.
The industry spends a lot of time talking about capital efficiency.
Much less time talking about attention efficiency.
But attention might be becoming one of the scarcest resources in crypto.
Capital can be deployed across multiple opportunities.
Attention can't.
A few years ago, Bitcoin mostly asked for patience.
Today, it sometimes feels like it asks for attention.
And I'm still not sure which one is harder to provide.
Have you ever opened a crypto app to check one thing and ended up spending twenty minutes thinking about things you never planned to think about?
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