Topic: Anyone living with older people? - page 4. (Read 1034 times)

I have old parents in my family.  They don't believe me when I say that I work online.  But after long patience online I managed to earn some money and I gave it to my parents.  But they still don't believe and I give them some idea about virtual currency now it's digital age.  But old people feel annoyed even if they don't understand.  Later, I am patient myself.  My parents declared my income as gambling and illegal income.

That is exactly what I do when I find myself in such a situation that I cannot express or explain crypto and how I make money from it to people. I will simply tell them that I write articles about bitcoin, I give investment advice and I also do trading and all these gives me money that sustains me.
Those three things are understandable to anyone who wishes to understand what I do.

I don't know if your problem is to make your own people understand that you do genuine job or you want to teach them.

No need to waste time trying to explain to them what is digital currency if they are not at all interested in it. You are just testing their patience.

If you want to convince them, then it is wrong to try to do it in words. Of course, they will consider this a stupid idea until they see the result. Therefore, I can offer 2 options:

- you continue to do what you like and don't advertise your passion for this.
- you show the result of your earnings by crypto in traditional currency or in something material that will dispel all their doubts about your venture.

When they see an impressive income (in cash, for example), they will ask how you did it, and then the time will come to tell you about bitcoin. They themselves will start asking you about it.

Explaining won't work, believe me, because once they don't believe it, nothing can explain it to them. What you need to do now is produce results, like you said, you are making money from it, so show them your results, and they won't doubt you anymore. People won't care or listen to whatever we're doing, but they'll stop laughing at you if you show them your results. I never wanted to explain or argue right or wrong with anyone, the result will be my answer.

Do you want them to invest too? personally, I advise you not to do so because we already know how stressful it is to look at the market situation whenever the bearish trend will occur and you can't do anything to make the price rise again. so it's better for you to just engage in the crypto industry by yourself in your home and I'm sure they are also doing the things they love the most as you do right now. Just continue to pursue yourself about the things which are right for you without getting support from your families because I'm pretty sure if they see you happy doing good things, they will gonna support you even though they don't understand anything about crypto at all.

It will be a very difficult task trying to teach Bitcoin to someone who knows nothing about Bitcoin but if you must you should first of all try to convince them that Bitcoin is not a scam and then work them through in the uses of Bitcoin etcetera etcetera etcetera...
I'm not saying it's going to be a easy job but if you just keeping trying little by little they'll start to grasp the concept of Bitcoin. Op good luck with it.

@OP if you are really serious about teaching your elderly about Bitcoin you should have patience in guiding them.  Don't use too many technical terms and as much as possible be simple. You need to keep your explanation simple so you have to find simple words that your elders will understand and replace those too techy terms.  You can also give a graphical presentation, probably you can find a video on Youtube that explaing Bitcoin in simplest way. 

Another thing, you should have prepared a lesson plan or guide so that you won't jump into a random topic, it should be organized.  There are lots of tutorial guide online, then just simplified it according to the understanding of your grandparents.

You must be patient in answering questions if the elderly got interested, they will barrage you with a question so make sure you are ready for it.  While teaching them, you must be hands on, meaning you must show them how it works by giving the example and walking them through the process.

Teaching the elderly is really hard, you can either have the patience or just give up and just mind your own business.  I wonder why are you pushing your grandparent to understand Bitcoin.  I think they are already comfortable with what they are doing and you force-feeding them with Bitcoin information may probably bring discomfort to them.


They believe in technology and modern things, it is that they don't want to leave their comfort zone so they just ignore any tech since they just wanted to enjoy their free time. 

Most of the elders don't even understand how television or internet works so nothing could be more natural than for them to approach Bitcoin with great skepticism. Technology has developed very rapidly, there will be generational differences in the perspective of events. I told many old people about Bitcoin and got very positive feedback. I also got a lot of negative feedback. Not all seniors are the same, some were very excited about Bitcoin, while others refused to even listen. If they don't want to listen, I don't waste my time, but if they are interested in the subject, I talk about it with great enthusiasm. I suggest OP to same.

Elderly people they don't believe in technologies and the modern things in the world and it is very difficult to convince them to accept what it is. You don't need to worry yourself much if the people around you don't believe in bitcoin,  just focus on yourself and do your thing. To me bitcoin is an individual race, it is left for one to accept it or not. Continue your race on crypto , sometimes mere words hardly convince people to accept things. Use your results in crypto investment to prove their ideas wrong.

I don't think they want learn about Bitcoin, if not, nothing is not possible. All I know is dedication once they are dedicated you will find it easy in educating them. So I don't think you should force them to understand what is digital currency is all about,once they see many people are using it and they feel it is necessary for them to know about it they will definitely learn about it later,so don't waste to much of your time with them.I believe they are not ready to learn, I don't think it is their level of illiteracy op. And again it may be their old age because many age people don't want to follow the advancement of technology especially when it turn to term of doing online investments due to scams issues people do face. Currently i have some  people around me which are just 50 years old and their are not on any social media because they believe scammers can only get them from does sites.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is to remain silent.
In your case, since you said that they are old already, I guess it would be better if you will just not teach them regarding Bitcoin. They might see it as a negative one like another problem for them or it's a scam for them etc.

I guess it's normal for older people to say that "we are wasting our time" if they don't know what we are doing and that applies to crypto as well. I said it because I also heard that thing to my older relatives and I didn't waste my time teaching it into it as well because I know that they will not be interested into it because they aren't investing at first place.

You really wanted to? Take your time, be patient and just continue teaching them
On the other hand, if you already see that they aren't interested then don't bother teaching it to them anymore.

No one understands a thing until you start making money out of it, the question I have for you OP is, are you making money out of crypto? Is your answer is YES then they will be calm as time goes by, you owe nobody any explanation because no matter how hard you try they will never understand and you can't blame them for it.

I was once just like this until I broke free and don't give a heck anymore.

First you need to clarify what's the method or way you make money using Bitcoin?

If you're making money through investing or trading using Bitcoin, you can just tell them it's similar like stock.

If you're making money through signature campaign or bounty that paid with Bitcoin, you can explain them if you're become a digital marketing where you're promoting the project in social media, it's similar like sales but you're just in digital.

If you're making money by offering your service like editing, programming etc and get paid with Bitcoin, you can tell them if you're competent in those hard skill and show your portfolio.

See like you I also live in a joint family, my parents, grandparents and some other old people live with me.  When my family talks about digital currency outside of paper money, they just look at their faces and don't understand anything.  I don't talk to them about Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency unnecessarily.  They are generally religious and consider digital currency to be cursed.  According to my religion they call digital currency as haram earnings.  I don't want to talk to them about digital currency.

Don't forget to educate them about digital currency.  They will not be able to acquire any knowledge about digital currency.  I have tried to explain a lot to every member of my family but they keep telling me the same thing that I am trying to mislead them.  They will never accept digital currency by heart.

It would be very difficult to explain something to people who don't want to find out for themselves what you really explained, both among parents and those younger than them, as I have experienced so far where many people around me think I am unemployed because I don't have a job. real since the Covid pandemic even though it has been explained many times that I make a living with crypto but only a few of them believe in this, there is no need to force someone to believe that working in the crypto space can also be productive because not everyone thinks that what we are talking about is true as we experience.

the way that might be effective is to always give them gifts or something they want, so that their hearts are touched.
after that they will surely ask, where do you get money from? and you answer from bitcoin or crypto.
because most parents need proof first to convince them, by convincing them, surely they will be close to believing that bitcoin is something that has potential in the field of finance or investment assets.
after they believe and are sure about bitcoin, then teach them about the ins and outs of bitcoin.

It does seem difficult for you to explain about Bitcoin to your grandparents who are illiterate or illiterate about cryptocurrencies. But that doesn't mean there isn't a solution, because if you are lazy to argue or are lazy to explain in detail to them, you can find another place that is more comfortable and invisible to them on the grounds of work. And the place also doesn't need to be too far from your house because you also have to go home when you have finished all your work.

But if you are still patient and still want to explain to them, try making a show on your laptop or PC or smartphone and show them so they can learn from there and start to understand little by little. Because if you choose other people or close friends of your grandparents and uncles to explain this, of course it will make it more difficult and stressful for you because they receive explanations through intermediaries.

Getting things done or learning something new in old age can be very difficult. It is hindered if there is no interest in it at all. If your elderly grandparents are uninterested in cryptocurrency, there is nothing you can do because you will be wasting your time, as they see you doing now as you try to teach them about bitcoin. It will be easier to teach them about it if you can persuade them to be interested in it first.

So do with my parents. I once told and explained them about my ways earning money in the crypto world because they asked me once, I tried to explain it, but I am sure 1000% that they didn't understand what I meant. But fortunately, they trust me with what I am doing, never ask again. Sometimes, we cannot force them to understand about it. But sometimes when people asking me and they need answers that closely ca be understood more easily, I will say about digital paymemt, global currency, online advs, and others.

Older people find it difficult to believe it when you tell them that Bitcoin is real,and one can invest in  it to become rich in the nearest future.This kind of thing will be difficult for them to believe because they did not know about things like this in those days.The world is now digitalised,and so, so many things are now done online.But explaining it and making them believe you is another difficult task to make.
I remember telling my dad about investing in a long term project,and he actually felt like I was going to scam him by using his money and never returning it,but he wonders what I do that gives me money,when I don't wake up in the money to walk down to work anyday,I only remain in my phone all day.