BTC, why do some people just get it, others really don't? - page 5.

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Quote from: franky1 on October 20, 2019, 07:36:35 PM

its more about how your introducd to it

too many people are introduced to it via 'network marketing' and 'get rich quick' chats.. thus they are normally just interested in the put fiat in get more fiat out side and not caring about larning about bitcoins real utility

others are introduced via the secure ur wealth against bank, police, court freezes. epecially due to the banking crises around the world. these are people interested in the price but also the tech

others are like liberty/self sustainability, self management. not wanting to put faith into banks/governments. these typ of people are not so much interested in the price but the tech. after all 1BTC could be worth $1billion.. but that $1billion could be worth just a second hand car (note: Zimbabwe dollar)

I disagree somehow, it's not about how we introduce it, it's about how knowledgeable are them to accept every ideas that they will hear, other's diseases are shutting down and ignoring everything they think that is not helpful at all, it's hard to compete with the government and media talking about discrimination of bitcoin, while you---us (normal people) are trying our best to explain it to those narrow minded people, it is not worth it.

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This all boils down to risk management and perception. Some persons who have visited me wanting to learn about bitcoin and buy for future use, after hearing the whole truth because they were told a lie that if you buy bitcoin today, that in two weeks or so, one become very rich, they turn back after hearing the real truth about how bitcoin works.

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Quote from: jubalix on October 20, 2019, 07:29:15 PM

In my experience its seems that

[1] some people seem to just "get" btc almost as soon as they are introduced to it,

[2] others simply don't or

[3] become hostile without understanding BTC tech.

[4] Become hostile and do understand the tech.

The demarcation lines seem to me quite stark. Any theories as to why this is?

(I understand [5] those who just don't get it or are not interested, )

@jubalix Bitcoin is easily understood by youngsters who are willing to take risk for more gains, but older generation people have lots of reservations and hence they stay away from it. Then many people even get discouraged because of the fud associated with bitcoins, they don’t even bother to do their own research and simply give it a pass.

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for those who don't know bitcoin well, they think that it is just a scam scheme, they think that if they will invest with bitcoin then they will just lose their money, some other people do not have interest that's why they don't exactly know what bitcoin really is. In my experience, I've to know bitcoin for years now but as of now, I don't have a lot of it because I don't want to take huge risks because I also don't have enough funds to support that risk even if I still want to try to.

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Quote from: jubalix on October 20, 2019, 07:29:15 PM

In my experience its seems that

[1] some people seem to just "get" btc almost as soon as they are introduced to it,

[2] others simply don't or

[3] become hostile without understanding BTC tech.

[4] Become hostile and do understand the tech.

The demarcation lines seem to me quite stark. Any theories as to why this is?

(I understand [5] those who just don't get it or are not interested, )

Well, I believe that those who 'get' BTC are those who had had enough of the banks and governments controlling their money. These are the people who want a change, and are open to suggestions. Those who go hostile without understanding are likely only too afraid to hope that it can get better. Either that, or they are older people who still believe that the world is the same as it was half a century ago. You become blind to the changes in the world as you grow older. Those who do understand the tech and go hostile, however, are a mystery. Perhaps they are profiting from the situation as it is, and feel endangered by it, who can tell. The fact is that there are a lot more of those who don't understand BTC tech than those who do, be they for or against BTC, and that is something that needs to be addressed. Those who aren't educated on the matter need to learn what it is all about, as they represent literally billions of potential users.

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To understand Bitcoin, you have to think outside of the normal box. Bitcoin is nothing like anything that the financial industry had before and if you are intimidated with "new" groundbreaking technology, then you will "block" anything that looks too complex.

Bitcoin are also a very disruptive technology and disruptive technologies are normally very controversial and it gets a lot of negative publicity in the early stages, so people might believe the FUD and negativity and once again follow the sheep in the industry that wants to stay with the norm. Angry

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actually according to ourselves where we learn and understand bitcoin, like our question that often blames why other people get bitcoin easily? whereas I am not the same as those who get bitcoin easily, maybe it's because they are very confident and try their best to get their dreams with bitcoin, whereas we only hope and without hard work of course it is impossible to get bitcoin without work.

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Quote from: jaocoincrypto18 on October 21, 2019, 12:45:24 AM

In general, every person has different approach about Bitcoin existence which is normal. Some are positive as they believe that Bitcoin is very promising for an investment and some are the opposite specially that there are lot of scam projects today that are using Bitcoin platform to steal money from the people therefore it will be depend to the people as we have different personalities and has an own freewill to decide.

It's not about it being either considered a scam or a promising innovation as much as it is about the way people want/like to do things. For a pretty high percentage of the older generations, Bitcoin cannot replace other safe-haven assets or commodities. They prefer using cash as it's real and can sit right in your hands while they might consider Bitcoin just a number on a display.

I don't think most people who consider Bitcoin as a negative innovation is caused by the scams lying around in the crypto world.. It's more about the image mainstream media has created around Bitcoin, linking it only to terror and illicit activity.

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Quote from: Ailmand on October 20, 2019, 08:28:05 PM

It depends on who do you introduce bitcoin to, and the way how you introduced bitcoin to the. Not all people is tech savvy, I've introduced bitcoin into some of my friends and only a couple of the really got involved in crypto currency. Even I who really believes in crypto was skeptical on it when it was first introduced by my brother.

Well people has different levels of comprehension and way of understanding things they are being introduced to. So before introducing bitcoin to people it will be essential if we would get to know first the way how someone we would talk to will pick up into something effectively, by then we will know how to attack or what approach we will use. Second is, we need to be effective in introducing bitcoin so that we will catch their interest and pull their curiousity dive deeper, for we can't force someone understand what they don't want to know.

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Quote from: Yaunfitda on October 20, 2019, 11:21:10 PM

It's because people are afraid of new technology, simply as that.

I wouldn't say they're afraid, but a lot of people simply want to preserve the way they do things. It's like how some old people are hostile against new developments because "this old tech works just fine", and they'll keep finding reasons not to adapt.

That being said, I don't think that has anything to do with the public's aversion to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is simple enough, but in a world that's focused on UX, it still lags behind. It's far easier for people to dismiss it based on its reputation than actually doing their due diligence, especially when there are risks (that they would rather not take anyway) involved.

As for even educated people reacting differently, it's really just a matter of different people having different perspectives. Hostility is a personal choice.

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Quote from: jubalix on October 20, 2019, 07:29:15 PM

In my experience its seems that

[1] some people seem to just "get" btc almost as soon as they are introduced to it,

[2] others simply don't or

[3] become hostile without understanding BTC tech.

[4] Become hostile and do understand the tech.

The demarcation lines seem to me quite stark. Any theories as to why this is?

(I understand [5] those who just don't get it or are not interested, )

We can't say that they are not interested at all because at first they listen to you, and maybe some point on their mind that keeps them away from using bitcoin or maybe they just don't trust the people who introduced bitcoin to them. Those who are on the resistant are not a risk taker, and there's a lot of people like this who chooses safe investment, than any volatile investment. We all have different goals and belief, I believe time will come and more people will use bitcoin.

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Quote from: Qirtov on October 20, 2019, 10:18:06 PM

People view something based on their educational/knowledge background. So, just understand how they have different responses. Our duties are to convey to people about the truth or true understanding of BTC. Of course, we can do it in accordance with our respective abilities.

In general, every person has different approach about Bitcoin existence which is normal. Some are positive as they believe that Bitcoin is very promising for an investment and some are the opposite specially that there are lot of scam projects today that are using Bitcoin platform to steal money from the people therefore it will always depend to the people as we have different understanding and has our own freewill to decide.

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Just saying, like minded people tend to be more receptive. Asleep minded people tend to block out anything that would challenge their reality.

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There's a lot of factors to take not just that. Because people differs financially and in overall social status. Also I noticed that they will only take interest if they found that they could benefit from it.

Let me give an example. I introduced cryptocurrency and Bitcoin to a lot of students and explain to them how it works (I didn't tell them that you could make money out of it). They did listened but most of them just doesn't want it as they don't have time for that and it's complex they said. Now, I did another group but change how I introduce it to them, I explained it just like how I did to the first group but added that they could make money out of it. A lot got interested.

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It's because people are afraid of new technology, simply as that.

You just have to look at history, internet for one was a good example, no one thought that by this time that almost all people around the globe are going to be touch by this technology. So as it evolved, many see the advantage of it. I guess we really need to wait for another 10 years before people will realised how great btc is, resulting to it's growth and mass adoption.

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Quote from: libert19 on October 20, 2019, 09:21:18 PM

Some people learn slowly, for example, consider me, when I was introduced to BTC in late 2014 I was thinking that it was illegal to use BTC, however as time passed I learned more and am quite enlightened right now lol

The first impression last I guess, most of us belongs to this stage where we are ain't sure what to think about new system that being introduced to us, but by simply allowing things to be learned, in some point we will start to get more interest and achieved goals that we see good potentials. People always do have differences but in the long run after being educated it will see the benefits.

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People view something based on their educational/knowledge background. So, just understand how they have different responses. Our duties are to convey to people about the truth or true understanding of BTC. Of course, we can do it in accordance with our respective abilities.

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as it was said, i also believe it is about how you are introduced to bitcoin but it is not only about them being told it is "get rich quick" it is about all types of misinformation that people received even on a technical level. i have seen people explain bitcoin in "technical terms" and make it look like as if it is coming out of thin air and the security is a chance/luck thing! suddenly we see a lot of people who misunderstand how bitcoin works and have doubts about its security, and since we are talking about valuable money here they won't get near it.
of course we always also have a lot of FUD scaring people off with their portrayal of bitcoin as a criminal's tool.

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For ordinary people, bitcoin is just nothing but a pyramid scheme and if you actually have that you're either a scammer or got scammed. Nothing but because of the misused and misunderstood bitcoin which is saddening. It supposed to be a currency but since people are nothing but greedy asshole they made bitcoin an evil thing.

And by far, even we spread the good things about bitcoin, the first impression they got won't easily go and will remain invisible. However, we should just think the other way around, it's not our loss but their loss for not believing.

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Quote from: jubalix on October 20, 2019, 07:29:15 PM

In my experience its seems that

[1] some people seem to just "get" btc almost as soon as they are introduced to it,
[2] others simply don't or
[3] become hostile without understanding BTC tech.
[4] Become hostile and do understand the tech.

The demarcation lines seem to me quite stark. Any theories as to why this is?
(I understand [5] those who just don't get it or are not interested, )

The answer to that is human nature. Ordinarily, we can't think and be concern with everything happening in this world. And expecting that all people can be interested with something is insane...that is not how we humans work. With the explosion of knowledge like we have now, people's attention and focused have become like a commodity and there are so many entities fighting just for seconds and minutes of people's attention...and this is happening everyday. No wonder some will be interested with Bitcoin and some will not. Not to mention that we all have our own biases, leanings and different convictions. And of course, not all have the money saved for investing with Bitcoin. The most important thing is that there are already many who are into Bitcoin and maybe some more can be coming in the next few years, even if Bitcoin has no advertising and promotional budget of its own.

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