the reality of bitcon adoption - page 2.

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Quote from: nicked on May 04, 2014, 04:05:29 PM

I'm a 47 year old, white male. I was raised on a farm and have been a farmer most of my life and I graduated from high school in the 80's, before the internet. I have no further education than that. I also worked in a large steel mill for a lot of years, and still work in the steel industry today. I own Bitcoins. It's people of my demographic that are going to make or break Bitcoin. Adoption will happen but, it will be very slow unless people can get the message out there more. Most people I know have heard of Bitcoin but, know very little about it, and what they think they know is usually the bad stereotypical stuff.

It's nice that you own bitcoin, you're a totally different demographic than the usual internet geek who hopped on the train early, but I don't think at this point any particular group themselves will "make or break" bitcoin. Bitcoin will always find a level of existence at its reflective level of adoption.

As of 2014, bitcoin belongs to the innovators, early adopters, internet geeks, and trading speculators. As more and more businesses open themselves to bitcoin, the adoption and technology will just keep on expanding.

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Quote from: beetcoin on May 04, 2014, 04:35:59 PM

i don't like it when people make bitcoin comparisons to the internet. they are not the same thing. while bitcoin has promise, the internet is a portal to the world wide web. bitcoin is a currency system. the internet is a utility, which means it's pretty important to have; people view bitcoin as more of an luxury or accessory.

LOL

You don't understand technology, it is quite evident.

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i don't like it when people make bitcoin comparisons to the internet. they are not the same thing. while bitcoin has promise, the internet is a portal to the world wide web. bitcoin is a currency system. the internet is a utility, which means it's pretty important to have; people view bitcoin as more of an luxury or accessory.

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i have heard the too early excuse too and here is why:

i think bitpay should not be advertised for area's where little bitcoin commerce will happen. since they moved over to subscription based many merchants do not want to pay a monthly fee before knowing how much volume they will take. so please only mention bitpay for established merchants that know an idea of how much bitcoin they process. inform unsure merchants about other methods of fiat cashing out or bitcoin acceptance and hoarding methods.

Robert Paulson

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bitcoin needs advertising.
suppose if one day bitpay is big enough to be a sponsor of the champions league in Europe like MasterCard is, that would completely change people's perception of bitcoin and probably help drive adoption through the roof.

LiteCoinGuy

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In Satoshi I Trust

we are all early adopters right now.

JeffK

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I never hashed for this...

After today's NASCAR race my boss (we design custom high-performance auto parts) talked about accepting DOGE. Funny times

nicked

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I'm a 47 year old, white male. I was raised on a farm and have been a farmer most of my life and I graduated from high school in the 80's, before the internet. I have no further education than that. I also worked in a large steel mill for a lot of years, and still work in the steel industry today. I own Bitcoins. It's people of my demographic that are going to make or break Bitcoin. Adoption will happen but, it will be very slow unless people can get the message out there more. Most people I know have heard of Bitcoin but, know very little about it, and what they think they know is usually the bad stereotypical stuff.

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Adoption now is good, but be prepared that transitions WILL have to be made. There is still a lot of work to do. I hope that it goes well, but we'll see if it turns into an investment pit, with few actual transactions being made...

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Core dev leaves me neg feedback #abuse #political

Today I asked a relative of mine who owns commercial real estate
if they would consider taking Bitcoin payments.

They said that it is too early. It might work somewhere
like, say, San Francisco, but most of their tenants don't
even know what Bitcoin is.

So bottom line is, we are VERY early in the Bitcoin
game. That means 1. there is a lot of work to do,
and 2. its still a great opportunity to be an early adopter.

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