How to explain bitcoin to tech-illiterate people.

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Quote from: BeGoods on February 28, 2016, 02:37:23 AM

Quote from: BigBoom3599 on February 24, 2016, 12:47:29 PM

What's an easy way to explain bitcoins, the blockchain and mining to people that aren't so tech literate

someone who is not literate or lay on the technology will be very difficult to explain about bitcoin, they do not necessarily know about the internet. so I do not advise to invite it to join with bitcoin, it is better to find someone who already know about the Internet, it will be easier

and mostly they are the younger generation, it is very easy to explain when they have atleast an idea on basics about computer and internet, elderly people seems like they are not interested anymore in any new technology,

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Quote from: BigBoom3599 on February 24, 2016, 12:47:29 PM

What's an easy way to explain bitcoins, the blockchain and mining to people that aren't so tech literate

someone who is not literate or lay on the technology will be very difficult to explain about bitcoin, they do not necessarily know about the internet. so I do not advise to invite it to join with bitcoin, it is better to find someone who already know about the Internet, it will be easier

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Quote from: BigBoom3599 on February 24, 2016, 12:47:29 PM

What's an easy way to explain bitcoins, the blockchain and mining to people that aren't so tech literate

explain bitcoin,tell to them that bitcoins is crypto currency,currency that have no physical shape,simply "money from internet"
explain to them that mining is like mining gold on the ground,but its mining bitcoin from computer,algorithm solving.

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recently I came across a friend who doesn't even know how to create a folder and organize files on a PC, and she just called me asking about bitcoin. I was half way in shock. People with no knowledge of PC and internet also are interested to know about bitcoins and its difficult to explain them. But I try my level best to bring them into bitcoin ecosystem.

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Simple way is to teach them that it is also like any other currency, the currency which will be used widely in future. If they know about them before, it will be better for them when bitcoins will be the main currency everywhere.
If possible ask them to google Bitcoin and get more information on it and wallets etc.

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It will take great efforts to explain tech-illiterate people as they don't want to learn something new, and majority of people don't have faith in new technology so it would be a great challenge to explain them.

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I don't think it's right to explain bitcoin mining to people who are not tech-literate. It's like explaining how 'magical money' grows in your computer then you harvest it after a week or a month and poof you get cash out of thin air.

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Quote from: Hirose UK on February 25, 2016, 08:08:29 AM

Quote from: Decoded on February 25, 2016, 05:29:11 AM

It's online money without a bank. The people using bitcoin sell and buy it, and that's how it keeps alive. That's how i explained it to my friends, and they got hold of the idea pretty quick.

I also said to my friends that bitcoin is such as e-money. We get it online and we can exchange it into fiat money so we can spend it, but they're still confused

If they're still confused, then it's impossible. I tried to do that too in a cashier when the person before me tried to payed with a credit card. It took 20 minutes and about 2 calls to the bank to have the transaction processed and during that time it piqued his interest bu can't understand it. They just don't get how crypto works.

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Quote from: Decoded on February 25, 2016, 05:29:11 AM

It's online money without a bank. The people using bitcoin sell and buy it, and that's how it keeps alive. That's how i explained it to my friends, and they got hold of the idea pretty quick.

I also said to my friends that bitcoin is such as e-money. We get it online and we can exchange it into fiat money so we can spend it, but they're still confused

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just say bitcoin is a digital currency, you cant touch it but you can spend it,

if explain mining just explain, every transaction there will be cents dropping to floor, mining job is to collect that cents

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It's online money without a bank. The people using bitcoin sell and buy it, and that's how it keeps alive. That's how i explained it to my friends, and they got hold of the idea pretty quick.

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If they are not illiterate enough to use google to search these terms you are discussing then don't bother.

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Dont bother.

Their life is hard enough as it is.

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The only way would be to demonstrate it right in front of their eyes so they could experience it first hand since talking them through it, won't make any difference (at all since I'm in a family that their less techy as a whole and have tried everything which didn't worked that much). You could also download some YouTube videos and let them watch it so they get the introduction somehow (it worked a little bit on my case).

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I think you can perhaps explain it using the illustration of old gold mining. People looked for gold with their hash and get some money. Then they could spend it. Computers do the same... they "hash" for certain info/chains that could be used as money.

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The best way to teach non tech people about bitcoin is about the same used to teach people who don't know how to read and count using money.
If they understand it like true money, they get quite fast

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Quote from: BigBoom3599 on February 24, 2016, 12:47:29 PM

What's an easy way to explain bitcoins, the blockchain and mining to people that aren't so tech literate

Bitcoin is isolate from the gov. and idiocratie.

When Wallstreet and gov. crash and do nothing to help people ... Bitcoin does.

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I feel doing such a try is very difficult. Basically there are a huge number of people who are educated but does't have interest towards technology.
To make such people is not that easy. Initially an interest has to be generated within them. If that happens the rest is not a big deal.

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I think that the better you can do to explain it, is finding an store where you can pay with bitcoins, and show them that bitcoin is money because you can buy products with it. People use debit or credit cards and don't know how they work, they now that its money because they can shop with it, if they see that with a mobile app they can use a bitcoin wallet to buy a product they will understand that bitcoin is money.

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Quote from: BigBoom3599 on February 24, 2016, 12:47:29 PM

What's an easy way to explain bitcoins, the blockchain and mining to people that aren't so tech literate

Magic internet pirate money.

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