I think I haven't read anyone posting about the XMAS/NEW YEAR conversations about Bitcoin on the table.... Maybe the nocoiners were so disgusting you guys don't wanna talk about it? lol
In my case... no conversation about it. The only one at the table that knows I am into Bitcoin was my GF and she is a hodler since 2013 and has instructions to never talk about it with anyone else.
I can confirm from personal experience and discussing with other Bitcoiner friends how their experiences were, that nocoiners who had traditional investments did not want bring up Bitcoin bc they had taken such a beating in December.
While the Dow and SP500 were down significantly in the month, many small time investors were hit extra hard bc they often have riskier portfolios loaded up with popular tech goodies like FANG stocks that got slaughtered.
Nocoiners who have no investments at all have always been more open minded to hearing about Bitcoin in my experience. I have personally converted many nocoiners into Bitcoiners in the last five years and almost every one of them had zero investments at the time, making Bitcoin their first ever investment.
My nocoiner conversion method is pretty simple. I tried dozens of ways and stuck with the one that worked the best.
I tell them that if they dont own at least one Bitcoin then they may feel suicidal when it hits one million dollars bc they didnt make a small investment.
Very few of my converts have acquired a complete coin but it has become a goal of them all to get one coin.
Funny story but my first convert was my father, and he is my only convert who went back to nocoinery, all the rest still HODL.
He purchased 1.1 BTC in 2014. In early 2015 around 220 usd/btc he said he didnt want to hold it anymore and he couldnt handle the huge swings. I found this humorous bc he is very well off and heavily invested in stocks and mutual funds since the 70's, so his portfolio swings on a daily basis by massive dollar amounts just bc of how large it is. But somehow the Bitcoin that he spent peanuts on bothered him emotionally with its large percent swings. He said i could have the coin, and I of course accepted and added it to my Hodl stash.
What is even more funny is how when in 2017 at the end of the epic bull run, he told me I got lucky with the investment. He thought this was some kind of compliment, but I took offense naturally and I reminded him how hard it was for him to handle the swings of 1.1 coins and to imagine how hard it was for me to handle the swings when I had a large amount and it was 100 percent of my net worth. I explained it wasnt luck but vision and the will to fight and hodl and never surrender no matter how hard it got. The will to die for your coins. He quickly apologized and said luck was a poor choice of words.
If you thought I was going to forget to mention that we are in a bull run and to go smoke some good Hopium and enjoy the health benefits documented by 9 surgeon generals, you were wrong
belief me when i say I have a friend that is really OG
BTC'er and one with very big knowledge on the matter, but he converted me into a coiner and we have become very good friends, in his close friend group he maybe turned in 2-3 peoples into coiners, from the moment I became a coiner(whiteout any knowledge), I turned in minimum 25-30 into holding
BTC (probably the no betters owning more in alts) but they are in and i know some have whole
BTC some are trying to get it ......
and 0 bought when I was buying(winning) @350-ish, 2 very good friends bought @ 900-1000-ish, my brother was all the way with me and my father was the worst he was always a know better and get burned every time ( the classic things like buying all the alts that someone said was gonna moon and shit)
now the most of friends and people start buying when my friend opened his investment fund for crypto and that was august 2017 when the price was 3000-ish i guess...., also a few later around november-december.
very much people with less understanding went into that, and start learning buying some on the side .....
of course there are some that left the market, but most of them have some kind of future perspective where the world will need
BTCor some kind of digital asset/currency... of course not everybody thought is the same but most of them are becoming long term believers i guess.
I know my closest friends are and while many are in loses, they are buying every month of there pay-checks, and trying to accumulate where they can, so i think thats very very positive.
