Not so many years ago, it was quite common to give away a little bit of bitcoin to get people interested. Not reasonable anymore. Bitcoin used to be viewed as for the world and now it's just for the rich. Now, whether that's OK or not is a discussion that could be had but people just don't want to admit it.
Translation:“Please, please be interested in my cryptonerd toy money. I will give you some to get started! Please come play with me. 🥺” = Success!“Holy wow, are you kidding me!? This is actually... real money.” = Bitcoin has failed.Nobody gives away money to get people interested in money. People are interested in money because it is
valuable. I have never heard your particular complaint being made about gold. But soon, it will be quite common to give away a little bit of dollars to get people interested. —Well, they are already doing that. I hereby suggest
DollarFaucet.gov to “President” Biden, so that he can save the U.S. economy. View malware-laden ads, solve CAPTCHAs as a good little slave to robots, get stimulus!
You have totally missed the point.
In the parlance this forum deserves, “no u”.
It is physically impossible that you
read the text that you quoted, if this is what you got from it:
This scenario is not like a grandparent giving their grandchildren $5 pocket money.
Where did I say or imply that!? To eludicate, I will try again with the cultural semiotics of teh interwebz:
A general protip about life: When you need to try to attract people’s attention, then you are not successful—at least, not in the realm of human affairs.
When people
seek you out because they value you, then you have succeeded.
Naturally, this principle applies to affairs with women. By way of metaphor:
Giving away Bitcoin to “get people interested” is sitting tongue-tied in a bar, trying to think of the right line to get a girl’s attention. You desperate nerd. You reek of neediness. You will go home alone.
Bitcoin is now the man,
that man whom the pretty girls are approaching and hitting on.
They need to prove their value to
him. And he DGAF. There is a limited supply of Mr. Bitcoin to go around, and everybody wants a piece of him.
He is now money—not toy money, but
real money. Another protip:
People pursue money; money does not pursue people!Per what I said before: Have you ever seen a goldbug in a goldbug forum giving away tenth-ounce gold coins “to get people interested”?
You claim that something is valuable, and you are giving it away—LOLWUT?
I have given Bitcoin away for years to countless people who have shown some interest. Sometimes the fees are annoyingly high for these small transactions but I still do it anyway. I'm doing this transaction there and then and I want it to clear quickly, so I err on the safe side with a higher fee. They love it and every now and they these contact me to say "wow can you believe how much it is worth now" or "how do I go about buying some Bitcoins of my own" that brings me a lot of joy and I couldn't care less about the fees any more.
Years ago, that surely was helpful to the growth of Bitcoin. Years ago—
when Bitcoin was widely perceived as toy money.Nowadays, if you give away Bitcoin to get people into it, then you are devaluing Bitcoin. You are bribing people to use it. You are signalling that Bitcoin needs them more than they need Bitcoin. You are showing them that it is
not real money—because nobody gives away real money for free. If you do not understand this psychological principle, then it is a confirmed scientific fact that you have never gotten laid—at least, not without paying money for it.
To prove that they are worthy of Bitcoin, people must qualify themselves. They must demonstrate at least a modicum of effort to learn the newbie basics. They must back up their seed phrases
carefully. And then, they must
drain precious “money” from their bank accounts, and give it in exchange for
real money: Bitcoin.
—Either that, or they must work for it. Some girls will do anything—yes,
anything for Bitcoin! They love him that much.
If you want to be oh so generous for the good of Bitcoin, then I suggest that you donate those coins to developers of open-source Bitcoin projects. Core, or something like BTCPayserver. Or what the hey, send me those unwanted coins. I have been casting pearls before the swine here for years, and nobody has ever sent me a tip! LOL. Whatever. Just do NOT peddle some Richy_T bigblocker nonsense pretending that there is something wrong with Bitcoin on grounds that allegedly, it is nowadays burdensome to
cheapen Bitcoin by treating it as toy money.
Famous last words:This is a hit-and-run. Catch y’all later.
