Bitcoin has been awesome and will always be awesome. We, who have been involved in Bitcoin since the very early days understand this very well. However, for the laymen, for the people who don't really understand the technical aspects of Bitcoin or those who only watch the mainstream media are skeptic about Bitcoin. Since, all they hear in the News is how Bitcoin can be used for illegal activities and how it offers complete anonymity (common misconception) to people to do what they need on Internet.
Have you ever convinced or encouraged anyone to invest in Bitcoin and did you have success? Of course, since we know that we are giving a good advice, so we would usually advice our own family members or friends about this.
In the past few months, I encouraged some of my friends to invest in Bitcoin. They had a lot of questions about it from technical perspective and I helped them understand. They invested in Bitcoin and are very happy with the returns. And now this information propagates and more people will get involved in Bitcoin.
In my humble opinion, as a Bitcoin enthusiast, we can help understand people the positive aspects of Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin is still in the very initial stages and those of us who really understand what Bitcoin offers, know that Bitcoin Price is only 1/10th of what it's worth right now.
What are the most common responses you get from laymen about investing in Bitcoin?
Some popular ones I receive are:
1. "Oh, it's already too expensive, I cannot afford to buy it."
2. "The governments don't regulate it, why should I invest in it?"
3. "It's an illegal currency and only cyber criminals use it."
4. "What backs up Bitcoin? For example US Dollar is backed by Trust (all time favorite response
), but what backs up Bitcoin?"
5. "The market is way too volatile to invest."
6. "You can't really use Bitcoin as a currency."
Well, for me, suggesting some kind of investment is a bad idea to a people, more especially to a high risk and fast pace investment like bitcoin, when everything goes bad, it can ruin your relationship, even between brother or sister, or maybe parents.
And not to mention the amount of time and talking to convince or encourage them to invest on bitcoin. It is a hard thing, very hard. And i salute you for your courage to encourage people.
Even up till now, i only tell some people that i work to earn bitcoin, and then hold it. It is kind of doing an investment, but without spending my money on it, just spending my spare time and energy. And i still got some negative comments, such as :
1. You're wasting your time
2. When you reach enough, you cant withdraw it
3. Why you want to work and paid with bitcoin? It is a scam
4. Bitcoin still has many uncertainty.
5. You better work hard in your job and get promotion.
There are so many more that i cant write all of it here, but still, in my opinion bitcoin will be big, but i dont and will not encourage poeple to invest bitcoin personally. Maybe things i can tell such as im working and get paid with bitcoin, or suggesting them where to learn bitcoin or cryptocurrency first.