Topic: What makes our job so hard to spread awareness (Read 2098 times)

They definitely will understand transaction costs and inflation.
Once bitcoin's price stabilizes, these will be major selling points.

I certainly haven't advocated having their savings on a mobile device, I've advocated a laptop that has had it's connection completely disabled because USB sticks would be too easy to lose, but that's it, the main thing is to always make sure if you store a large amount of coin long term you have no connection to it.

Bitcoin is a difficult concept to grasp so it's also bound to be difficult to try spread to people. Most people sadly aren't all that interested in the economics of money or libertarian principles so they probably wont be as excited about bitcoin as most of us here, though all you can do is try your best to explain it to them and hope they listen. If not, oh well.

ummmm right, ppl should have had their coins with the likes of neo&bee, inputs.io, MtGox... 

I think the hardest part about spreading awareness is just the general ignorance and apathy of the public. They don't really care or want to understand. Hopefully they will regret their unwillingness to understand it in the future.

I'm surprised that so few vendors offer a Visa/Mastercard debit card that can be linked to a BTC wallet. That seems like the holy grail since it allows someone to hold most of their wealth in Bitcoin but buy goods, with instant fiat conversion, anywhere major credit cards are accepted.

A mistake the Bitcoin community has made, which has really hampered adoption and confused the public, is to push for people to have full wallets on their laptop or mobile device and do transactions through that. The result has been predictable - theft/hacking, non-existent vendor adoption, and widespread consumer frustration with the speed of the protocol.

Many companies are moving to make the Bitcoin experience as convenient as a normal debit card so hopefully we'll see an explosion in volume once some of these experiments meet with success.

Heh, and the "Faith and trust and pixie dust" people don't like heretics. Most people can't seem to cope with the truth about money. It's really a consensus illusion.

What the blockchain does is make that illusion less subject to manipulation, fraudulent accounting at highest levels. The fact that the wealth and GDP of the nation can be "re-imagined" by whatever clique currently holds sway is put forward as an advantage of the consensus illusion.

Bitcoin succeeds in nailing a lot of this jello to the wall, and getting us a "reality based" monetary unit.... yes, it has a heck of a lot of the same faults as the incumbent system, but there's vanishingly few criticisms of bitcoin that don't apply in spades to the alternative. If it's even 1% better it's a resounding success. We like to hope that it's a little more than that overall.

he's right. Bitcoin and surroundings is 99% scammers. Bitcoin itself is a miners scam.



and it actually is one. A textbook commercial cult ... there have been others before that. Some altcoins are even worse.

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So many people just do their job day in day out, not thinking about how to get involved in something new. If anything, they are afraid of changes. This is why it is *so hard* to convince new people to use bitcoin.

If you have been involved in MLM or CULTS spread, you would understand why.

so many people look bitcoin as a cult

I have no problems with this quiet period. I am using it to accumulate bitcoins.
Gather as much as possible when it is off everybody's radar.

Don't combat, just use bitcoins as money. Save them. Sell stuff and services for bitcoins. When it will go to a $10000 ppl will understand.

Money talks....once BTC hits $1000, $2000, and higher...people will start paying attention.

If there is nothing spectacular about bitcoin at the time...most people turn a blind eye to it.

Because most of the people don't even open the internet and check the day to day update on the latest tech.

another thing that also gets people confused is that they don't alreayd do mobile banking or haven't played video games where there is a virtual currency. if they sat there and played lets say runescape for a month, bought and sold items in game, then learned that 1 million gold is worth about $2.50 in real life money on 07 classic then they would understand why people are willing to pay $2.50 per 1 million in rsgp. its because some people would rather use USD to buy rsgold then have fun in the game.

bitcon works differently, you buy bitcoin with USD  to have your own fun/or be serious/be anonymous/because it makes more sense cost wise/to send a friend money/buy something blahhh. people dont understand all the benefits you get from it because they haven't dealt with something like it before.

also people dont even understand how the current fiat system works, so if you try to win them over by saying it is better than the current system they will look at you and be all like "well it still works right now what wouldi need btc for derp derp derppp".

many people think fiat is too big to fail. that it will continue on forever. they have used it since birth and they think it will continue until death.

they need reminding that the Zimbabwe dollar has GONE
they need reminding that the french franc has GONE
they need reminding that the Spanish paseta has GONE
they need reminding that the finnish markka has GONE
they need reminding that the Deutschmark has GONE
....(i can name a couple dozen more that disappeared in the last 20 years. hello 'euro')

as for the future.
the russian, chinese, brazilian, african, indian currencies are going. (hello 'brics')
the american dollar, canadian dollar, mexican peso currencies are going. (hello 'amero')

so there is going to be a shift in peoples natural tendency to trust that piece of paper saying american dollar, to always be worth something. because soon enough people will just be using it as wall paper or toilet paper when the change happens. and thus people have the freedom of choice to shift into yet another government honeypot trap such as the amero/brics, or go with something thats both international and borderless and uncontrolled. that by its very nature will continue for atleast a century...

dont be fooled.... the american dollar will not be here in decades to come.
america will file for bankruptcy to not have to repay china (yes china own the majority stake in the US bonds) and then america will create the amero.

its already happening, many cities in america are now filing bankruptcy. here is just a few
-- City of Detroit
-- City of San Bernardino, Calif.
-- City of Stockton, Calif.
-- Jefferson County, Ala.
-- City of Central Falls, R.I.

so dont think bitcoin is a finished race... as most smart people can still hear the starting trigger, even if a few non believers think the race is over before they have begun to run. the energy and pace is yet to be seen.

bitcoin is just code, no arms no legs. no voice. thus bitcoin cannot force anything upon anyone, yet bitcoin can be clearly seen as advantageous to fiat in multiple ways. for smart people, they see the benefits without any third party speaches. for average joe, they may need some guidance to explain how these benefits affect them. and then the late adopters, well its always going to take them alot of time to see the benefits. so dont hound them endlessly if they are not seeing it instantly.

just wait and see what happens and be in a position to help guide people using honest practical advice into what bitcoin can offer that fiat cant

Whether they want to understand or not, but nobody will say "NO" to a free thing. I can understand that it may be annoying when it comes to learning anything new that you don't understand and are not interested in, but they will be giving back the coins to me only, and in that way, they will experience and harness the power of cryptography. I don't think there's any other way to let people know about this and make a community with them then to market it publicly and ask them to try out our "Coffee for BITCOINS"...

you gotta remember that people don't inhernelty take the time to learn things. case in my point my girlfriend. she is actually smart, she has a master degree in psychology and all this stuff right. she thinks she knows everything all the time and when i prove her wrong she gets mad(i do it in a nice way too). some people just do not understand what they don't understand. i will admit if i dont know something and othe rpeople can get annoying.