Topic: We are losing Bitcoin.Bitcoin had its 15 minutes of fame We are losing our dream - page 2. (Read 4809 times)

Here's the issue as I see it,

The general public is never going to look at a form of currency "as their dream". If you try and turn this movement into something that only attracts people who don't have much to live for and are consequently looking for answers in fanatically belonging to a culture group then of course it is going to turn off the mainstream.

They simply don't care about any of that, they just want comforts and convenience.

Bitcoin is a social project of sorts, but it has a basis in technical innovation not as a support system for "looking for answers". I realize that sometimes the line separating these two elements is fuzzy but this project will not succeed unless it provide something useful for the society at large, rather than things that are only of interest to a very small and uninfluential, yet very idealistic, segment of the population.

I don't get the feeling the inventor of this implementation did it out of altruism. I think he did it either for a political reason, or if actually working alone, for personal reasons. So I don't think the view that "satoshi is watching over us" is very insightful or much more than an example of a limited perspective.

The kind of mind that can create something like this isn't going to be interested in watching out for the welfare of random individuals and probably doesn't even relate well to people he is very familiar with.

when I see threads like this, I buy bit coin, it going to do another 10x.

I think it's positive long term the hype goes down and instead is replaced with real progress based on technical development and a growing ecosystem of merchants accepting crypto currencies.

I'm not sure where its all going. 18 months ago I looked at it as a possible scam as I didn't understand it. So I tried to educate myself. 6 months ago I started mining which I still do.

I'm an IT professional so I would think more tech an PC competent than many of the population yet I have found it a steep learning g curve. Which doesn't bode well for bitcoins mass adoption.

I lost a small ammount at Gox. Before all the tossers start banging on about I should have known better; I'm new to this, I was just buying some btc and not storing on there. I foolishly sent Butterfly Labs money for a newer miner, again a big mistake.

I worry a out keeping my btc safe, I only have about 1.5. I wouldn't keep that much fiat in the house. If it were in a real bank it would be safe. Another big problem with BTC. How do you keep it safe and insured against loss or theft?

So for me now I won't be getting any more. I feel fatigued with all the crap that surrounds Bitcoin. I'll keep mining but I feel I'm wasting too much energy and time trying to learn about Bitcoin and keep what little I have safe. I will keep an eye on its progress though in whichever direction it may go.

Just my 2p.

This.

Anonymous, remote, irrevocable money transfers are the con man's dream. This makes Bitcoin a scammer magnet. Look at all the Ponzi schemes promoted on this board.

Were still in the starting line it's not even a few feet out yet so there really is a long way to go
And if it retains fame instead of having 15 minutes only then that's the real destination

The very best ideas are around encouraging/helping all businesses to accept BTC or other crypto's as payment.

Then you will start SLOWLY and GRADUALLY seeing widespread adoption....

Paying for your coffee with a thumbprint, smartphone or at least a QR code imprinted on the back of your BTC payment card... that's how you get the masses adopting when they see this stuff happening...

Yeah this is the major point. People will flock in masses when the infrastructure is in place to make bitcoin truly 100% convenient. We know it already is more convenient than fiat in many instances but it needs more to really outshine credit cards. This takes time - it's been what 5 years now? But we need more time.

If you think btc is done please send it to me
I`ll make sure spend it through the fed`s web site 

pessimistic ideas are spreading all over the Internet, we all better stop thinking like that cause it really can badly affect the market

Wasted years of your life?  You make it sound like youve invested thousands of hours in something.  What are you doing over there?

Come together by sending you coins?  It would better way to come together to send coins to Dorian.

Send all your BTC to me at: 1MYpNKj25HRBFpv22YpuZsuz2zZHKBLUur and I'll recycle it into a different cryptocurrency, thereby using less resources and reducing harm to the environment to a minimum, unnlike Xpress over here who'll just pile up on the BTC in a garbage heap, taking up computer power and energy.

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Well, this 58 yr old guy is going to hang in with Bitcoin.  Unless they get stolen...

And my 81 yr old ma does email.

 

 

( ha ha! )

This...

Sheesh, OP must be an impatient teenager. Email was invented in 1972 and only started to gain wide acceptance in 1993, OVER 20 YEARS LATER. Bitcoin was invented in 2009. Give it another 15 to 25 years. Everyone will be using bitcoin or something like it by then.

The masses today who are older will NEVER adopt bitcoin. Bitcoin is as foreign to the over 40 crowd as email is as foreign to the over 70 crowd. High tech is as foreign to old folks as gibberish. You'll have to wait decades for the babies born today to grow up on bitcoin as "normal" and "real" money and wait for the old folks to die off before bitcoin will be widely adopted.

Bitcoin is like the Netscape Navigator of cryptos. It may either survive long enough or other cryptos will evolve to become the Chrome or Firefox of cryptos. So no need to worry about publicity. If the technology deserves it, it will get mass adopted.

No.

Bitcoin has had 3 years of fame. It was covered even heavily in the news in 2011. So was the Mt. Gox hack in 2011. However it seems like everyone is a dumbass with <2 years of usable memory.

Bitcoins doomed! Please give me some. 

Fuck off.

Man, seriously?  After all that, your best ideas are Bitcoin statues and putting a flag in space?

This is why we may never go mainstream.  If ideas like these are the best we can come up with ...

I expressed bewilderment and confusion at the Flag thing previously.   Monuments and statues???  Sorry.  I'm lost.

I dont get it.  Terrible ideas.

-B-