Bitcoins only for 'hackers' and 'gamers'?? - page 2.

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Quote from: evgonoba on April 18, 2013, 06:56:54 PM

The real problem is that Bitcoins will likely never gain enough acceptance because the whole thing about 'mining' and the like will always only appeal to the rebel and hacker part of society. I'm part of that crowd....but most people aren't.

It's the wrong crowd to really change our money system cause no one takes us seriously enough. And even worse, hackers and gamers don't even really WANT to be taken seriously.

So, it's a limited idea due to it's culture. Sad to say.

No, as soon as they have a commercial on TV that says you can spend X amount of money to turn your computer into a money making machine, it will launch off.

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Quote from: evgonoba on April 18, 2013, 07:21:40 PM

It's not who needs an easy way to send money, it comes down to who will TRUST it enough to send and RECEIVE money....who will take it seriously or not.

The great thing is you don't need to trust it, bitcoin isn't about trust. It is about a trustless system, please do more research.

Transactions always require trust. I am referring to its acceptability to a wider audience. I myself am fine with the system.

Please explain how transactions require trust, if your signing a transaction with your private key, then no one can change it and still allow it to be valid across all nodes.

It was a general point that all transactions require trust....that the item you are buying is what you think it is or, on the other side of the transaction, that you will be paid. You said "you don't need to trust it", so my point was that trust is always an issue when doing business. You seem to feel that there is no doubt or hesitancy out there for Bitcoin to overcome. My point is that the everyday person is skeptical and leery. Anything that new money can do to make it easier to trust is beneficial, even if it seems self evident to others. I think the culture of Bitcoin is a bit too dismissive from what I see and read, and telling people they don't need to trust seems to dismiss widespread and persistent tendencies, which limits its appeal.

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Quote from: evgonoba on April 18, 2013, 07:21:40 PM

It's not who needs an easy way to send money, it comes down to who will TRUST it enough to send and RECEIVE money....who will take it seriously or not.

The great thing is you don't need to trust it, bitcoin isn't about trust. It is about a trustless system, please do more research.

Transactions always require trust. I am referring to its acceptability to a wider audience. I myself am fine with the system.

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Not Gaining Acceptance? BTC is on the CNN Business News most weeks,
Websites have already started adapting, only a matter of time before it is the main online currency.

evgonoba

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The point is not that you need to actually "mine" but that to the average person in the economy, it sounds goofy, therefore doesn't engender trust in it as a 'system'. I know....we don't trust the present system, either, and shouldn't. Therefore, the system to replace it needs to make sense.

Where does the money come from you ask? We mine it from complicated computer transactions...just too goofy for most people.

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Mining makes you part of the security of the system, you don't need to be a miner to use bitcoins as currency. anyone with a smartphone will be able to use BTC without having a clue how it works. Hopefully in the near future.

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"the whole thing about 'mining' and the like" is totally irrelevant for normal Bitcoin usage.

Most women I know like jewelry, yet none of them ever actually dug up any gold from the ground themselves. Same for Bitcoin.

evgonoba

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It's not who needs an easy way to send money, it comes down to who will TRUST it enough to send and RECEIVE money....who will take it seriously or not.

drakahn

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and why would only hackers and gamers need to easily send money anywhere in the world?

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Those same 'hackers' and 'gamers' built the internet and it's taken pretty seriously.

evgonoba

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The real problem is that Bitcoins will likely never gain enough acceptance because the whole thing about 'mining' and the like will always only appeal to the rebel and hacker part of society. I'm part of that crowd....but most people aren't.

It's the wrong crowd to really change our money system cause no one takes us seriously enough. And even worse, hackers and gamers don't even really WANT to be taken seriously.

So, it's a limited idea due to it's culture. Sad to say.

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