Well the video's on youtube will be your best bet. People are just to lazy to read. I find the videos of James D'Angelo the easiest for people to understand.
Find the video's here : http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgo7FCCPuylVk4luP3JAgVw
A mix of basics and more complex aspects of bitcoin and cryptograpy are explained. Those are the video's I use to get people to understand and grasp the principles of crypto currencies.
Enjoy
Topic: Tips on how to explain Bitcoin to a complete noob? (Read 2131 times)
Just tell them it is online currency and store it nicely as you would lose your money just like in real life..
tell your friend a time traveler from the future came back in time and taught an unknown team of software developers how to code bitcoin and launched it.
Okay, so a relative of mine who has never heard of Bitcoin in her life was asking me exactly how it worked. I tried explaining [...]. Any tips, guys?
Yes, try this: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-real-magic-of-bitcoin-700054It's proving pretty effective so far.
I want to buy a pizza with 1 BTC ,then 10 year later find out pizza was worth 1 million cash. 
I'll sell you 5 pizzas for that bitcoin..
Lol, i wish I had a bitcoin, i only have 0.01
0.01 bitcoin is like $6.3 now, which you may be able to get a small to medium size pizza in some places.
I want to buy a pizza with 1 BTC ,then 10 year later find out pizza was worth 1 million cash.
I'll sell you 5 pizzas for that bitcoin..
Lol, i wish I had a bitcoin, i only have 0.01
5 bitcoins for pizza loll. that pizza must have some hot chick aka escort ready to please as well.
yeah same happens to all of us, when my friend explained it to me i didnt get it. He pointed me to the short introduction bitcoin and i went from there.
Thanks for the tips guys. I've nearly got my relative convinced if I can just get her past the fact that it's what she calls an Internet "gimmick."
Whatever you do don't forget to show them all the positive press Bitcoin has gotten and how much respect it is gaining all over the world as people try and understand it. Explain the potential it has to grow mean profit for those that hold Bitcoin.
I want to buy a pizza with 1 BTC ,then 10 year later find out pizza was worth 1 million cash.
I'll sell you 5 pizzas for that bitcoin..
Lol, i wish I had a bitcoin, i only have 0.01
I want to buy a pizza with 1 BTC ,then 10 year later find out pizza was worth 1 million cash.
Maybe don't tell how it works. Instead, tell what you can do with it.
Average person don't need nor want to know about technical side of thing, so don't demand it from them.
Average person don't need nor want to know about technical side of thing, so don't demand it from them.
Exactly.
Seriously, how many of us knows how international wire transfer and television works technically lol?
When talking to someone who seems interested in Bitcoin I normally give them as many links as I can find that lead to great information.
I do the same with a youtube link saying watch this shit lol.
When talking to someone who seems interested in Bitcoin I normally give them as many links as I can find that lead to great information.
Maybe don't tell how it works. Instead, tell what you can do with it.
Average person don't need nor want to know about technical side of thing, so don't demand it from them.
Average person don't need nor want to know about technical side of thing, so don't demand it from them.
Just tell them its e-money and you buy stuff online using e-money instead of money. Then slowly explain more if they are interested.
well, there isn't that much you can tell them
just tell about decentralisation, don't forge the pizza story, that's important!
just tell about decentralisation, don't forge the pizza story, that's important!
The "pizza story?" Did I miss this one? Do tell. (And I like the faucet idea. I heard through the grapevine that there is such a thing as "faucet rotators?")
That is the greatest bitcoin trade of all time lol.
Long story short, a bitcointalk user "laszlo" spent 10000 bitcoin (yes it is 10K btc) for a pizza in May 2010.
The original thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pizza-for-bitcoins-137
ROFL I bet laszlo is regretting that! I sure hope he/she got some darned good pizza.
no, he don't. I've caught him online some time ago, and he wrote he enjoyed his pizza, thats all. Immediatelly after that post one member sent him 1 BTC.
, very nice gesture. I believe you are talking about the following post.
1 BTC sent your way you Bitcoin legend
Wow thanks, I do still have access to it. You should never delete a wallet, even if you've spent what was 'in' it.
I appreciate the donations, but nobody owes me anything.. I generated my share and I spent it, it was just at a time when the value was lower, but so was the generation difficulty, and the block reward was 50.
Laszlo
Hi,
just say: IT'S BETTER
now seriously, I'm quite successfull saying that bitcoins vs fiat are same as e-mails vs classic post office and it works.
The "pizza story?" Did I miss this one? Do tell. (And I like the faucet idea. I heard through the grapevine that there is such a thing as "faucet rotators?")
That is the greatest bitcoin trade of all time lol.
Long story short, a bitcointalk user "laszlo" spent 10000 bitcoin (yes it is 10K btc) for a pizza in May 2010.
The original thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pizza-for-bitcoins-137
ROFL I bet laszlo is regretting that! I sure hope he/she got some darned good pizza.
no, he don't. I've caught him online some time ago, and he wrote he enjoyed his pizza, thats all. Immediatelly after that post one member sent him 1 BTC., very nice gesture.
just say: IT'S BETTER
now seriously, I'm quite successfull saying that bitcoins vs fiat are same as e-mails vs classic post office and it works.
well, there isn't that much you can tell them
just tell about decentralisation, don't forge the pizza story, that's important!
just tell about decentralisation, don't forge the pizza story, that's important!
The "pizza story?" Did I miss this one? Do tell. (And I like the faucet idea. I heard through the grapevine that there is such a thing as "faucet rotators?")
That is the greatest bitcoin trade of all time lol.
Long story short, a bitcointalk user "laszlo" spent 10000 bitcoin (yes it is 10K btc) for a pizza in May 2010.
The original thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pizza-for-bitcoins-137
ROFL I bet laszlo is regretting that! I sure hope he/she got some darned good pizza.
no, he don't. I've caught him online some time ago, and he wrote he enjoyed his pizza, thats all. Immediatelly after that post one member sent him 1 BTC.
, very nice gesture. 
Okay, so a relative of mine who has never heard of Bitcoin in her life was asking me exactly how it worked. I tried explaining, but I'm not entirely sure she got it (or she was just refusing to comprehend what I was saying -- she does that sometimes). I suppose I could show her a few of the same videos I watched when I first heard about Bitcoin, but I'm not even sure she'd even really watch them. Any tips, guys?
I tell to people that BTC is a diamond inside of a rock.The more people try to "break" that rock and take the diamond out, it becomes bigger ( rock, difficulty )
It always works
well, there isn't that much you can tell them
just tell about decentralisation, don't forge the pizza story, that's important!
just tell about decentralisation, don't forge the pizza story, that's important!
The "pizza story?" Did I miss this one? Do tell. (And I like the faucet idea. I heard through the grapevine that there is such a thing as "faucet rotators?")
That is the greatest bitcoin trade of all time lol.
Long story short, a bitcointalk user "laszlo" spent 10000 bitcoin (yes it is 10K btc) for a pizza in May 2010.
The original thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/pizza-for-bitcoins-137
ROFL I bet laszlo is regretting that! I sure hope he/she got some darned good pizza.
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