How to teach people to download software wallets? - page 2.

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Quote from: pereira4 on November 03, 2016, 12:51:27 PM

How to avoid seeing this phenomena? it's like no matter how this is repeated, they never listen.

You got the clue, they never listen and it means having a harsh mind, so what are you doing if you already try for teach them about using the soft wallet (offline) and he does not listen to you? For those people are listening to the others suggestion, it's no need any special way for teaching them. it's not about need but for taking concern or nothing.
So what are you doing if they are never listening to you, just give them an evidence.

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Just send this to other people https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

So they can see the weak points of any wallet and well, exchange isn't wallet... Other day I saw a nice graph about wallets but I don't found the thread right now.

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now this a great mess i am getting frusted with the same question that why most people consider coinbase like wallets or some common sites for their everything. i am kind of adventerious and i like using and experimenting new softwares and their new features but new users only try to learn what they have seen live examples of and on most of the tutorials or guide even at youtube coinbase is one famous brand i have seen 99% btc accepting sites have the coinbase logo on them

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As most of the new people who start to use bitcoin want simple user interface just like the usual payment processors like paypal, perfectmoney etc they have been using from long time and as coinbase, xapo, blockchain like web wallets give them similar type of user interface so those people will not care much and keep on using this web wallets to easily access and send/receive bitcoin so this situation may remain for future also.

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I should think the obvious answer would be for us to teach people about paper wallets at the same time when we teach them about web

wallets. They should know how to buy them and then how to store them safely. The problem with this is, most of these methods to create

paper wallets are too complex for the average newbie that just bought bitcoin for the first time. We should make easy tutorials and post it on

the web for everyone doing this for the first time. Wink

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Like in most cases this people will learn this on hard way, after they lose their money in some way, they will try to think about better wallets and better protection of their coins.
How to teach them? Simply, make few videos about people who lost a lot of money in exchange sites, with online wallets. Short video that will educate all new people and some old ones.

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People always go for easiest and the least complicated solutions. So, if they are beginners it's kind a logical step to use exchangers as wallet. I don't agree that this is good solution but they probably don't have much Bitcoins anyway.
Do your best to teach them about advantages and disadvantages of all kinds of wallet and they will decide for themselves. And at the end they will learn, this way or another.

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These people obviously didn't understand the concept of Bitcoin very well,they need to realize that as long as they don't hold the private keys then they don't have 100% control over these funds.
Also, someone has to inform them that online wallets are not so safe as they might think and that there are much better options to store their Bitcoins like hardware wallets,paper wallets etc.

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Usually for newbie it will be hard for them to understand how to install and run bitcoin daemon, so better option for them will be to use paper wallet and store all bitcoin they have bought in it and not connect it to web wallet till they need to use those bitcoin. Another option could be using desktop wallet like electrum.

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Actualy if you have a low volume, you can use an web wallet, if you lose will be "$50"...

I don't know, it's not your money, let they lose it if they want, everyday and everywhere we can see threads about wallets/exchanges/etc

Desktop/Mobile wallets aren't so safe too, if you have BIG amounts, is better to use a paper wallet.

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I keep seeing people that want to get started in bitcoin, asking "how do I buy bitcoins?" then they buy them, usually from Coinbase, or any other big sites like those, and they keep the coins there. It's like they don't make the effort to learn the fact that having coins outside of your local software wallet is very stupid. All those people are prone to suffer losses as websites come and go, and don't get me started on the people that keep their coins on all those shady exchanges.

How to avoid seeing this phenomena? it's like no matter how this is repeated, they never listen.

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