What is the easiest way to explain bitcoin to a regular person?

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Quote from: Kelvinid on February 22, 2023, 06:43:16 AM

I couldn't deny the hard work when explaining to normal people about Bitcoin and sometimes we feel bad and misunderstood especially if they stand against what they have negatively heard on the internet. If we really don't have the patience and motivation, to quit is possibly on our minds.

So, before we decided to do this and help to educate the people around us make sure that we remain calm and open-minded because not all will understand and listen to us.

The public must be vitally taught on the gains and losses of Bitcoin operation in order to avoid time being wasted. The operation of bitcoin can be broken down into a number of different sectional divisions. It can be difficult to explain bitcoin to a layperson on your own, especially if that person has heard negative things about the project and has created anxieties about it. Most people who initially introduced bitcoin to uninformed people used the internet to spread their ideas and knowledge, but in the cryptocurrency world, it's all about who obtains the correct information before a project is properly carried out.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Has anyone here had troubles explaining bitcoin or crypto to a normal person?
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I couldn't deny the hard work when explaining to normal people about Bitcoin and sometimes we feel bad and misunderstood especially if they stand against what they have negatively heard on the internet. If we really don't have the patience and motivation, to quit is possibly on our minds.

So, before we decided to do this and help to educate the people around us make sure that we remain calm and open-minded because not all will understand and listen to us.

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Quote from: Natalim on February 21, 2023, 05:27:28 PM

I will you that it was not easy to educate people about crypto or about Bitcoin. For so many people I've talked about this in my place and even my friends don't believe it, they still think it a scam think and this is possible because of the influence of social media and news that many people got scammed by.

Well, I think...the easiest way to explain them is to show what you have achieved in investing or trading Bitcoin. Because people will believe us when they saw that we had improve, they are very certain of our status than of what we talk about.

It also happened to me; in the past, I told my brother to invest in Bitcoin, but he did not believe and thought that I had participated in Ponzi projects sooner or later would collapse. But until now, my economy has changed a lot while he is still the same, he started listening to me a few months ago and invested in Bitcoin. It can be said that the result is what they need, and there is no better explanation than showing them what you have achieved when investing in Bitcoin, they will listen to you.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Has anyone here had troubles explaining bitcoin or crypto to a normal person?

We don't want the word normal to be taken too out of context, because we are more than sure that we all know what a "normie" is.

For us, we used freebitco.in first and it basically showed us everything we need to know from a beginner's standpoint.

Does anyone here have stories about sharing their favorite hobby/profession with someone else who either has no idea or no interest?

If bitcoin is supposed to be the future of finance, then the whole world will need to know at one point or another. Basically bitcoin and crypto education is borderline mandatory in our honest opinion.

What do you all think?

Thank you.

In my first approach specially if its a friend.
I will be asking out these set of questions.

1. Do you have idea about digital currency?

Yes - Proceed
No- Open up some brief definition about crypto

2. Do you know about its benefits

Yes- Proceed
No- Tell about anonymity and being decentralized

3. Other opportunties?

Yes- Proceed
No- Explain that simply holding or trading it up could give out money making opportunities.

One thing that would be making you struggle if a certain person doesnt have that
knowledge about technology or something that arent that literate which it would
really be a challenge on telling someone who doesnt even know even with the basic principles
on how things simply works specially on internet based or connected things.

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There's what they called "individual dichotomies", you can't just walk to someone and started narrating everything just because you want the person to know what you are into or your favorite hobby ect. First you must sense their mood at every given point to know if they are that freely open to listen to you or not. Otherwise I will say only give attention to those who are open to give you a listening ear. Between if you are routed into this you don't need to tell your closet friends about what are into, your results alone are due enough to let them know you into bitcoin trading or investment.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

What do you all think?

Introducing new people to bitcoin is a mandatory task and something I feel we owe to bitcoin and cryptocurrency at large, the truth remains that, the higher to number of bitcoin believers and users get, the better the market becomes, and not just that, the government will also lose what ever level of grip they have on crypto, by then, they will no longer be discussing on how to maybe, ban bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, but now, their discussion would be more of how they can regulate it.

The above is just one or two of the likely benefit of crypto and bitcoin mass adoption, now, the easiest way to explain bitcoin to a regular person is a different topic altogether, and to this, I would say they it depends on the level of knowledge you as the instructor have, the level of your understanding of bitcoin will determine what you tell others out there about bitcoin.

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I will you that it was not easy to educate people about crypto or about Bitcoin. For so many people I've talked about this in my place and even my friends don't believe it, they still think it a scam think and this is possible because of the influence of social media and news that many people got scammed by.

Well, I think...the easiest way to explain them is to show what you have achieved in investing or trading Bitcoin. Because people will believe us when they saw that we had improve, they are very certain of our status than of what we talk about.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Has anyone here had troubles explaining bitcoin or crypto to a normal person?

The experience of introducing Bitcoin to a circle of people's family is nothing difficult, but it only takes a process and stages, logically nothing will happen perfectly the first time giving them insight about Bitcoin, there are various methods for introducing Bitcoin, but what people often use it to show Bitcoin, one of which is by giving them gradual and regular education, a good and important step. when they will start to be interested of course they want to get more knowledge to perfect their knowledge.

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Before we discovered Bitcoin, weren't we just regular people? But, we have finally grasped what Bitcoin actually is. It's unlikely to happen if you try to explain Bitcoin in one day. It won't be simple to describe Bitcoin to beginners. You should start by explaining Bitcoin and outlining the benefits of using it as money. Afterwards, you'll need to discuss any potential gains or losses. Then, if he starts to show some interest, you can go on to explain the technical details.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Has anyone here had troubles explaining bitcoin or crypto to a normal person?

We don't want the word normal to be taken too out of context, because we are more than sure that we all know what a "normie" is.

For us, we used freebitco.in first and it basically showed us everything we need to know from a beginner's standpoint.

Does anyone here have stories about sharing their favorite hobby/profession with someone else who either has no idea or no interest?

If bitcoin is supposed to be the future of finance, then the whole world will need to know at one point or another. Basically bitcoin and crypto education is borderline mandatory in our honest opinion.

What do you all think?

Thank you.

I doubt if there’s an easy way to explain bitcoin into a regular person, because the fact that certain person is clueless about bitcoin, then you can’t explain it to him simply and just expect that he understand it already. Bitcoin is always complicated, so you have to deal to those beginners with much of effort and determination so they can learn well from you. That’s the reason why I don’t personally teach people about bitcoin because just the thought about it make me tiring already. Instead of teaching them, I just show them how bitcoin changed my life, that way they will be more motivated to learn bitcoin on their own way.

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Quote from: xSkylarx on February 18, 2023, 09:54:31 PM

Usually I just explain the tip on it because most of the people who ask me know that bitcoin has a high price, so their purpose is to earn profit on it. I just explained what the real purpose of bitcoin is before most people knew it as an investment and how I've earned from it. I don't really go deep into it, as I'm sure they won't understand. Then I would also give them links and videos to learn more about bitcoin.

Do you know that till date many people is confused of Bitcoin, i will say that different people will narrate or give different explanation of inculcating the knowledge of Bitcoin to another, actually the objectives of someone who comes into Bitcoin investment is to make profit, basically when I'm impacting the knowledge of Bitcoin other people i first tender the demerit of Bitcoin investment before the advantages, some people fails to tell new investors the negative impact of Bitcoin investment, which from my understanding it's unfair. Teaching people Bitcoin, ensure that you have backed it up with the necessary article it interested one will read and comprehend.

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Few words I tell when somebody is really interested to know what bitcoin is. To make it easier to understand, I simply use the word online currency = cryptocurrency which has its specific use for having its own method of transferring to other end users.
And not just that, but it's also an asset at the same time because of having a limited supply. Those are like the keywords of how I explain it to people who are interested to know more about it.

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It's now when if you happened to example Bitcoin for some people and they will embrace you, but during the time Bitcoin was first introduced many people doesn't welcome teaching of Bitcoin, because what comes to mind is that Bitcoin is used for scam and during the investment their is every tendency that your investment funds will not be recovered during the investment, but people have known the possibility and also confirm the regulations and important of in the society.

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We can't explain something to someone if they don't show interest in them. So we ignore that and in order to make them interested in that topic, we only share the good side of it. However this is not the best approach to teach anyone about anything. We should share every detail, including bad and good sides.
As for explaining, start from the basics. If they show interest, then you can always refer to some articles about Bitcoin. From my experience, I can tell that what you learn by yourself, you will not forget it for the rest of your life. You just show them the path, but it's their decision whether they want to walk on that path or not. When Bitcoin will become a key factor in the society, people will show interest all my themselves. Then they will learn it on their own.

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Quote from: Raflesia on February 18, 2023, 05:18:11 PM

Actually there have been several examples and there have been several discussions which are almost the same with conditions like this if I'm not mistaken because there are indeed several threads that I've seen in almost the same condition.
I see a lot of people trying to get other people to know about bitcoin with some teaching, whether it's among work colleagues, in the family, even at school, that's a good thing, but on the other hand, we also have to look at it from an enthusiastic perspective, whether what we tell really has interest and enthusiasm. high or not. On the other hand, for me personally, I don't really want to be bothered with it because until now in my environment, if there are new people who want to learn and discuss, then I'm ready to give suggestions, but if not, I don't want to be bothered by having to introduce it to other people.

Crypto has gained high demand these days due to different news spread all over the internet. That’s why as much as possible, people become eager to know more about bitcoin and want to become educated on it. But it’s hard to educate people based on your own perspective, that’s why whenever they come to me and ask about bitcoin, I just tell them to DYOR so they can gain personal knowledge based on facts. And one thing I avoided not to be part on their learning process, is I don’t want to be blame in the future if ever their investments fail, which I think is very much possible especially if you are the one who introduced them into crypto.

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I have some difficult explaining bitcoin to people, because they seem to not absorb its concept very well, besides not feeling excited by the features bitcoin provide, such as decentralization, boardless transactions, person to person negotiations and self custody. I'm not so sure they don't understand it, though. It just looks like they aren't interested on bitcoin, because they think fiat perfectly fufill their currently daily needs.

Maybe once inflation starts kicking harder, people will change their point of view in bitcoin's favor.

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Quote from: calonpa on February 19, 2023, 10:47:48 PM

It is hard to explain bitcoin to a regular person. Tell him in brief. If he is interested, he will do the research himself and get involved. In the journey, he will develop some doubts. But there are forums like bitcointalk which he will anyway discuss on searching queries related to crypto on Google. You can only show a direction to the person, you cannot hold his hand and make him invest in bitcoin.

Some people believe hand-holding other people into investing in BTC is the right thing to do, but it is not, it is not possible to force people to develop interest in BTC, if a person does not have an idea or interest in BTC, it is best for you not to force them to do so. Majority of us in bitcointalk all love BTC, but the truth is that we can't force it on others who have no interest in it. Even when there is mass adoption of BTC in the future, totally everyone cannot be involved in it, because there will surely be those who don't like it nor want to use it.

It isn't bad to give people an idea of what BTC is all about, and then give them some resources to go and find out more about BTC themselves, if they indeed come back with further questions on what they have learnt, then you can help them with more materials to help them learn fast, but if they are uninterested and do not come back, then they should be left alone.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Has anyone here had troubles explaining bitcoin or crypto to a normal person?

What do you all think?

Thank you.

Yes, Bitcoin can be hard while trying to explain it to people who have no knowledge about internet stuff and digital currencies, and much more harder when trying to explain to total novice, because no matter how you try to explain what Bitcoin is, there are 3 most important statement you should never forget to mention while trying to explain what Bitcoin is, and they are that;
Bitcoin is a digital currency
Bitcoin put us in control of our own finance
Bitcoin is not controlled by centre bank or any government

Meaning that the best way to explain Bitcoin to a total novice is that "Bitcoin is a digital currency not controlled by center bank nor government, which put us in control over our funds"

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Does anyone here have stories about sharing their favorite hobby/profession with someone else who either has no idea or no interest?

My own experience is with a person who has no idea about Bitcoin but he is still interested in knowing what Bitcoin is all about.

In my own case, the person is a slow learner that needs things to be explained to him more than twice before he can fully understand, me knowing how risky Bitcoin investment is I decided to start guiding him gently, but at some points, I gave up because I don't have enough time to spend with him explaining things more than once, therefore, I gave some books about Bitcoin and most importantly I recommended him to be reading learnmeabitcoin.com because I know that is the website that can explain Bitcoin to him easily because it is very easy to comprehend in the book.

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Quote from: GodsOfSolana on February 18, 2023, 03:11:16 PM

Has anyone here had troubles explaining bitcoin or crypto to a normal person?

We don't want the word normal to be taken too out of context, because we are more than sure that we all know what a "normie" is.

For us, we used freebitco.in first and it basically showed us everything we need to know from a beginner's standpoint.

Does anyone here have stories about sharing their favorite hobby/profession with someone else who either has no idea or no interest?

If bitcoin is supposed to be the future of finance, then the whole world will need to know at one point or another. Basically bitcoin and crypto education is borderline mandatory in our honest opinion.

What do you all think?

Thank you.

I think the easiest way to introduce a regular person to bitcoin is by letting them first understand cryptocurrency and going further to explain to them that bitcoin is a liquid asset for securing future income. I will tell them that it is a form of trading that is that is outside the control of any group of people. I will also inform them that with bitcoin,
there is no need for any third-party involvement in transactions. I will teach them that bitcoin is a digital currency which does not require any central authority, like any governmental agencies or banks. I will show them through practical examples the importance of securing for the future through bitcoin.

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