in order to be born, you needed: 2 parents, 4 grandparents, & great grandparents, 16 second great grandparents, 32 third great grandparents, 64 fourth great grandparents, 128 fifth great grandparents, 256 sixth great grandparents, 512 seventh great grandparents, 1024 eighth great grandparents, 2048 ninth great grandparents.
For you to be born today from 12 previous generations you needed a total of 4094 ancestors over the last 400 years. Think for a moment, how many struggles? How many battles?
How many difficulties? How much sadness? How much happiness? How many love stories? How many expressions of hope for the future, everything your ancestors had to undergo for you to exist in this present moment, and you sit on your computer and buy internet coins all day?