Survey Says Most Americans Want to Ban Bitcoin: Highlighting Need for Education - page 4.

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on June 22, 2014, 04:03:25 PM

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on June 22, 2014, 03:59:36 PM

I believe in capitalism... and angels.

Lol jonald, then why are you here? xD

We shouldn't treat them like complete idiots, even though they might be idiots. We need to encourage bitcoin adoption and educate them.

i dont follow... what does my belief in capitalism or angels have to do with Bitcoin?

And yes you are right... most people aren't literally "idiots" -- mostly they have been
given bad information and programming.

Agreed jonald.

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Well... they can continue to enjoy their fiat, the fees they pay to middlemen, and their general lack of financial freedom.

Most of them will come around when it becomes hard to ignore and or the price speaks for itself. The rest can sit in fiat slaveland and be the final bag holders in the wealth transfer. 20 years later and there's still those that won't use a computer, very few but the point still stands. You can't teach an old dog new tricks much of the time and those w/ the most amount of money on average are those that are past retirement age and hanging on to the past or what's left of it.

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Quote from: byt411 on June 22, 2014, 04:01:26 PM

Quote from: jonald_fyookball on June 22, 2014, 03:59:36 PM

I believe in capitalism... and angels.

Lol jonald, then why are you here? xD

We shouldn't treat them like complete idiots, even though they might be idiots. We need to encourage bitcoin adoption and educate them.

i dont follow... what does my belief in capitalism or angels have to do with Bitcoin?

And yes you are right... most people aren't literally "idiots" -- mostly they have been
given bad information and programming.

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Quote from: jonald_fyookball on June 22, 2014, 03:59:36 PM

I believe in capitalism... and angels.

Lol jonald, then why are you here? xD

We shouldn't treat them like complete idiots, even though they might be idiots. We need to encourage bitcoin adoption and educate them.

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I believe in capitalism... and angels.

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https://youtu.be/PZm8TTLR2NU

Who gives a fuck about what most Americans think? Most Americans believe in angels. Most Americans are clueless slaves who think they're free. Most Americans still believe in fucking capitalism for fuck's sake!
Most 'Muricans still believe in the American Dream - a system that through them overboard thirty fucking years ago, they can't see what's right in front of their goddamn faces.

Bitcoin is the sovereign global currency of Earth. The indoctrinated obedient masses of China, USA, Russia, Iceland, and all the other nations will follow the herd when it is stampeding out of the burning forests of fiat into the cooling oasis of crypto.
Human beings are social creatures, they always follow the herd. The only question, dear reader, is where in that herd do you want to find yourself? At the front of the pack, or trailing at the end, closest to the flames?

There's only so much water in that Oasis.

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Quote from: Cicero2.0 on June 22, 2014, 11:14:40 AM

Quote from: cr1776 on June 22, 2014, 10:45:51 AM

It would be really nice to see the exact questions. Sometimes they are biased to obtain a specific result (e.g. push-polling), so knowing the questions and the context in which they are asked is important. E.g.

Q 1. "Bitcoins have been used to buy drugs. Have you heard that?"

Q 2. "Should bitcoins be banned?"

v.s.

Q 1. "Bitcoins have been used to send money to charities around the world. Have you heard that?"

Q 2. "Should bitcoins be banned?"

:-)

Polls that don't reveal methodology are pretty much worthless. Anyone with an agenda can make a poll say what they want.

Exactly. You need to see the internals of the poll before you can trust them.

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Quote from: foggyb on June 22, 2014, 03:30:53 PM

Quote from: bananaControl on June 22, 2014, 11:08:01 AM

Who gives a flying f*** about what the uninformed masses in the USA thinks?

Here's some more random info, and who knows, some of these claims about the stupidity of the masses might even be true!

- 25% of USAnians don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution while less than 40% do.
- Two out of five USAnians think teachers should be able to lead prayer in the classroom, despite the fact that the separation of church and state is a foundation of their democracy.
- As of just a few years ago, about half of USAnians still suspected a connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11th.
- Nearly one-fifth of Americans think Obama is a Muslim.
- About a decade ago, 20 percent of USAnians still believed that the sun revolves around the earth.

Fred Hoyle, Francis Crick, James Jeans, Robert Jastrow, George Greenstein, Arno Penzias, and Robert Shapiro also don't believe in evolution. Are they stupid people too? You might want to remove this off your list.

uh... He very likely could be a muslim.

http://www.wnd.com/2012/10/obamas-ring-there-is-no-god-but-allah/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw&feature=kp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik

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Quote from: bananaControl on June 22, 2014, 11:08:01 AM

Who gives a flying f*** about what the uninformed masses in the USA thinks?

Here's some more random info, and who knows, some of these claims about the stupidity of the masses might even be true!

- 25% of USAnians don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution while less than 40% do.
- Two out of five USAnians think teachers should be able to lead prayer in the classroom, despite the fact that the separation of church and state is a foundation of their democracy.
- As of just a few years ago, about half of USAnians still suspected a connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11th.
- Nearly one-fifth of Americans think Obama is a Muslim.
- About a decade ago, 20 percent of USAnians still believed that the sun revolves around the earth.

Fred Hoyle, Francis Crick, James Jeans, Robert Jastrow, George Greenstein, Arno Penzias, and Robert Shapiro also don't believe in evolution. Are they stupid people too? You might want to remove this off your list.

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Well hello there!

I have absolutely noticed both a generation Gap and a corresponding correlation in negative attitudes as age group increases. Agree with OP that education is the key here, focus on the kids for crying out loud!

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Ask any parent, bitcoins can be used to purchase drugs on the internet, they would immediately jump to banning. Ask any female, bitcoins is used in the online sex trade, she would say ban bitcoin. Ask anyone whose work is related to finance or economics, you will get the same thing.

It depends who you ask and what kind of news they heard about bitcoin. If the survey is done after giving them an introduction. The result would be very different.

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How low the bastion of freedom has sunk, it saddens me.
what ever happened to the land of the free, all that remains now is socialism and manipulated fiat money.

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This is the land of wolves now & you're not a wolf

The typical US point of view is to ban anything that represents change, or something you dont understand. And this is coming from an American. It's pretty sad.

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5 to 10 years from now, you could be buying properties and cars with bitcoin all around the world

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The young and the educated are favoring Bitcoin. The less educated are against crypto. That is a good sign. No need to get disappointed with the survey results. The opinion will change pretty soon, once BTC goes mainstream.

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Quote from: cr1776 on June 22, 2014, 10:45:51 AM

Q 1. "Bitcoins have been used to send money to charities around the world. Have you heard that?"

Q 2. "Should bitcoins be banned?"

Ban it! Non-government entities can't help people! Cheesy

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Bitcoin is a new invention, nothing can stop it.

Limited number of coins is as same as limited number of real estate properties where prices always go up because of the growing population demand.

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Quote from: bananaControl on June 22, 2014, 11:08:01 AM

Who gives a flying f*** about what the uninformed masses in the USA thinks?

Here's some more random info, and who knows, some of these claims about the stupidity of the masses might even be true!

- 25% of USAnians don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution while less than 40% do.
- Two out of five USAnians think teachers should be able to lead prayer in the classroom, despite the fact that the separation of church and state is a foundation of their democracy.
- As of just a few years ago, about half of USAnians still suspected a connection between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of September 11th.
- Nearly one-fifth of Americans think Obama is a Muslim.
- About a decade ago, 20 percent of USAnians still believed that the sun revolves around the earth.

Amen

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Yawn, another worthless and useless poll. Move along nothing to see here.

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Quote from: Dr. Pepper on June 22, 2014, 11:11:19 AM

Asking the general public what they think about bitcoin at this stage is silly. Most of them will either not understand it at all or heard mostly bad things about it.

I agree on this, bitcoin is still in the early adaptor phase. It's like asking people what they think about the world wide web in the early 90's.

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