Topic: Is the world too dumb for Bitcoins? - page 3. (Read 3837 times)

I agree with that statement, but at the same time, if you saw someone pay money to buy and read The Sun, what would it tell you about that person?

Not many people read both The Sun & The Financial Telegraph for example...

Saying that, even readers of the FT aren't generally that technical as teccies will simply use the web! Hey ho.

People are stupid. People are irresponsible. The middleman (banks) will always exist because he provides a service for these people.

The general public will not go and put their life savings on a piece of paper with no recourse even if they understand the technology (which is still a pretty big if). I assume this is what companies like Circle are working on.

The role I see for bitcoin is as an underlying protocol used by banks etc to settle transactions between themselves. It is not designed for use by average consumers directly (at least not without layers built on top of it).

I also see it remaining as an uncorrelated asset among other things. Bitcoin is not really a currency; it is an asset that can be very easily transferred.

Average means 50% to 50%. So half of population is smarter then average and half of population is dumber. Still intelligence is thing difficult to describe. It is main reason why IQ doesn't measure intelligence. IQ tests measure level of ones skill at writing the test. If you even would say average level is rather low, do you determine yourself also lower, or maybe not high enough to rise average higher.

When it comes to The Sun, compare UK population to sells of the Sun. Also being misinformed dean't mean someone is stupid.

People are too stupid to use the internet:   Create AOL
... AOL got them online... but they are still too stupid.
make phones smarter... try to improve something they already use... ahh they are still too stupid, create a tablet... give them little icons to push a finger on to get to the internet.

It is a never ending battle to dumb down advanced technologies for everyone, but we're getting closer.

 

Yes, but they are greedy enough for it.

If there are tons of people who buy without any solid reason, then you can be sure, that there are also people who sell without any solid reason. For instance people actually cried "this is the bottom, now we are going back up", after one of the biggest exchanges probably lost all of their customers funds. So, they actually thought that it is positive news that confidence to the entire market system got a painful hit.
The bitcoin market is a gamble most of the time, because people can't comprehend what is important and what is not. The price can actually go up, when it should go down and vice versa.

My point exactly..

People don't think using the internet is a risk because it doesn't cost them anything, when in reality by not taking security precautions they risk identity theft and all sorts of other frauds.

With Bitcoins, like the internet, people won't understand the risks, but because it requires trading their cash for BTC, why would they ever do it without understanding???

I fear intelligence will be the biggest wall for BTC, and one that can be overcome, but not in this generation Our kids will love BTC though!

Yes, to gamble to fill pockets of early adopters, or to consider that there could be other games which  probably end up winning...

They still are, the amount of times people have asked me "What's my password?", "Where's the login page?", or, "Is it a virus?" is insane.

I think you guys are missing the OP's point entirely.  

IMO it's not about bitcoin being easier to use, it's about the ignorant and stupid masses that seem to want to panic sell every single day/week there is an "OMG, Mt Gox!", "OMG they found Satoshi!", "OMG ancient coins on the move!"

If the gullible masses are so easily to manipulate to dump coins by the mass Media (who works directly for the Corptocracy, who in turn is in bed with the politicians, the banks and the WS sharks), then what makes the future of Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency) any different than it is today?  It's not like negative Media about bitcoin will just stop in 5 years.

People may miss the technical aspects of bitcoin, but most can see the financial aspects and understand that playing bitcoin is a high risk gamble. It doesn't make people dumb, that they don't like to gamble to fill the pockets of the earlier adopters.

That's exactly what jumped to my mind. People use the Internet every day but have no clue about the TCP/IP protocol. All the Internet code is now hidden under click here buttons. That will happen to bitcoin as well. So, yes I'm too dumb for bitcoin but smart people are making it easier for me all the time.

Same thing with the Internet in the early days. Bitcoin will come up with solutions for non tech people within the next 12 to 36 months. One of these innovations will become popular with the masses. In any event there are people already working on the distribution of digital currency issue.

Yes. But they were once too dumb for the internet.

Anyone reading this post has an IQ higher than the average person.

What makes me say that? Well, the average person in England for example reads The Sun which we know due to the popularity of the paper.

Unfortunately, as us intelligent Brits know, The Sun is a sad perspective of news. One of todays top stories:
"70 year old man's escort is son's girlfriend".

Equally, last week, I was at my girlfriends cousins house. He has 4 daughters ranging from 6 to 12 - He's an intelligent investor, very wealthy, but had no idea there were parental controls on the iphones/ipads he's given to his daughters and didn't know about the dangers online *sigh*.

We live in a non technical world where most people aren't technical, but those who are technical tend to be more successful these days...

The bad news, is for BTC to become the type of global currency we want it to be, the world needs to embrace it. In a world where our laws don't embrace international crime over the web, how are people going to ever want to explore something they simply don't understand?

I feel Bitcoin has a major problem and one that can't be solved for a generation or two, and that's to do with intelligence and understanding.

I invested at $1k - As a technical person, I'd been following the rise and can see the long term sustainability and benefits of BTC. If everyone around me non technical who also started hearing about it invested, that price would be $10k+, but I can't see it achieving high limits due to the reasons stated. I now worry we'll see the price lower long term as the world moves away from it..

Thoughts?