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legendary
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Intelligence, logic, ease of use, lack of business support, volatility, 6 years of bad press, scamming (by the exchanges too), hacking (by the exchanges too). Take your pick.

I think all you mentioned also happens in all currencies are already first appeared before the bitcoin, so it is actually the same problem with other currencies. That makes the bitcoin became more superior truth, jaya and a uniqueness bitcoin. And I think everyone already knows well about the bitcoin will never stop using it, only stupid people who stop using bitcoin!!

None of the things I mentioned happen with fiat.

Fiat is easy to use. You can get it anywhere, like a gas station, grocery store, convenience store, bank atm and once I got cash back from a public library while paying a book fine.

Fiat has 1/1,000,000 the volatility of Bitcoin.

You never see someone blaming fiat for a Silk Road or other type crimes. Bad press is a lot more important than people think. The only people that are drawn to illegal, immoral or taboo things are stupid kids and they don't have much money to invest so they can't help Bitcoin grow.

People don't trust the exchanges after the mountains of bad press over the Mt Gox incident as well as others. If you can't trust buying Bitcoin you can't use Bitcoin.

People hold a fiat bill in their hands. Bitcoins seem too intangible for them. They understand protecting themselves from robbery (don't hang out in bad neighborhoods, don't carry much cash around). They don't understand how to protect their money from hackers and don't understand why they should. They know if their money is stolen from a bank then fraud protections will keep them from much loss. Bitcoin banks are the exchanges that also steal from people themselves so they can't even trust the "Bitcoin Banks".

Bitcoin will never achieve anything more than being a trendy, edgy, cool technology for young hipsters until it solves problems that it's completely incapable of solving
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Suspicion, doubts..they are just not ready to try something new. I had problems to show to people that we can see that money and use it in real world. They thought its a waste of time and energy to gather coins, work for them and later use it to make it more.
I think most of people don`t find bitcoin enough safe for them to invest money, price is not stable, constant fluctuations, and that is probably one one of main reasons why bitcoin didn`t become mainstream yet. I think that will change in next couple years, its not something that happen fast.
Also one of the reasons is ignorance, they just don`t know, and they don`t wish to give chance to btc. I expect many things to change in this way, we can expect many new people to join into btc community after this halving. I just hope it will happen sooner.
sr. member
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Very hard to detect why people don't using bitcoin, it's individual problem for everybody, somebody don't like bitcoin, somebody is too old to start and many other reasons.

True, but I think that the reason all those who do not use the bitcoin because they thought that only a tool Bitcoin MLM or a scam. We know that bitcoin has no physical and a company that overshadows it, it could be a reason that is complained of by everyone

Yes, PONZI company gave BITCOIN a bad impression specially to those who have not heard of BITCOIN yet.  For example, here in my country there are lot of PONZI MLM company that prey on the people who does not know anything about BITCOIN.  Funny, they even claim that they are the pioneers of BLOCKCHAIN.  I was like wth LOL.  Then after sometime this company shut down with their investors money.  So whenever someone heard about BITCOIN they think automatically that it is a SCAM company.  Pretty much misconception and deception are stopping people from using BTC.

For the general public which are new into bitcoin they are faced with 2 very big problems.
First there are the ponzi sites, then there are the scammers. It's a hard world for them.
legendary
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Very hard to detect why people don't using bitcoin, it's individual problem for everybody, somebody don't like bitcoin, somebody is too old to start and many other reasons.

True, but I think that the reason all those who do not use the bitcoin because they thought that only a tool Bitcoin MLM or a scam. We know that bitcoin has no physical and a company that overshadows it, it could be a reason that is complained of by everyone

Yes, PONZI company gave BITCOIN a bad impression specially to those who have not heard of BITCOIN yet.  For example, here in my country there are lot of PONZI MLM company that prey on the people who does not know anything about BITCOIN.  Funny, they even claim that they are the pioneers of BLOCKCHAIN.  I was like wth LOL.  Then after sometime this company shut down with their investors money.  So whenever someone heard about BITCOIN they think automatically that it is a SCAM company.  Pretty much misconception and deception are stopping people from using BTC.
sr. member
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Awareness, ease of use and merchant acceptance. 

Well acceptance of merchants is really one of the reason why people stops from using bitcoin.
Why people are going to use bitcoin there are only few merchants that accepts it.
And the merchants that are accepting it are far from them.

Yes by far too many merchants are ignoring bitcoin. It's mainly speculation for what bitcoin is used. That's why I prefer to hold my coins.
Some day...
... we can use our bitcoins or
... we can sell them for profit.
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Awareness, ease of use and merchant acceptance. 

Well acceptance of merchants is really one of the reason why people stops from using bitcoin.
Why people are going to use bitcoin there are only few merchants that accepts it.
And the merchants that are accepting it are far from them.

Yes, we can say that the main cause of non-proliferation is Bitcoin and lack of knowledge. People simply do not know and have not heard anything about Bitcoin, and if they heard, they simply have no place to use it. To this day, Bitcoin is mainly being used as a vehicle for investment, savings or speculation.
It is necessary to disseminate information about Bitcoin, press conferences and the like.

That is really why people are stopping from using bitcoin for those people who already know bitcoin they got upset maybe with the things that are happening with bitcoin. And you are right, for those people who doesn't know about bitcoin that is really a reason.
full member
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Awareness, ease of use and merchant acceptance. 

Well acceptance of merchants is really one of the reason why people stops from using bitcoin.
Why people are going to use bitcoin there are only few merchants that accepts it.
And the merchants that are accepting it are far from them.

Yes, we can say that the main cause of non-proliferation is Bitcoin and lack of knowledge. People simply do not know and have not heard anything about Bitcoin, and if they heard, they simply have no place to use it. To this day, Bitcoin is mainly being used as a vehicle for investment, savings or speculation.
It is necessary to disseminate information about Bitcoin, press conferences and the like.
hero member
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Awareness, ease of use and merchant acceptance. 

Well acceptance of merchants is really one of the reason why people stops from using bitcoin.
Why people are going to use bitcoin there are only few merchants that accepts it.
And the merchants that are accepting it are far from them.
full member
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Awareness, ease of use and merchant acceptance. 

It could be, because it is still undergoing a bitcoin constraints in terms of trade, there is still very little marketplace that accepts payments via Bitcoin. It is indeed a major obstacle, but besides that we can still take advantage with the fluctuating price bitcoin
sr. member
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Awareness, ease of use and merchant acceptance. 
full member
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Intelligence, logic, ease of use, lack of business support, volatility, 6 years of bad press, scamming (by the exchanges too), hacking (by the exchanges too). Take your pick.

I think all you mentioned also happens in all currencies are already first appeared before the bitcoin, so it is actually the same problem with other currencies. That makes the bitcoin became more superior truth, jaya and a uniqueness bitcoin. And I think everyone already knows well about the bitcoin will never stop using it, only stupid people who stop using bitcoin!!
What about those people who never started? Are they stupid as well?
full member
Activity: 196
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Intelligence, logic, ease of use, lack of business support, volatility, 6 years of bad press, scamming (by the exchanges too), hacking (by the exchanges too). Take your pick.

I think all you mentioned also happens in all currencies are already first appeared before the bitcoin, so it is actually the same problem with other currencies. That makes the bitcoin became more superior truth, jaya and a uniqueness bitcoin. And I think everyone already knows well about the bitcoin will never stop using it, only stupid people who stop using bitcoin!!
legendary
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Very hard to detect why people don't using bitcoin, it's individual problem for everybody, somebody don't like bitcoin, somebody is too old to start and many other reasons.

True, but I think that the reason all those who do not use the bitcoin because they thought that only a tool Bitcoin MLM or a scam. We know that bitcoin has no physical and a company that overshadows it, it could be a reason that is complained of by everyone


LOL I don't know where you have found MLM Btc companies! I am pretty sure one of the biggest problem is that is actually hard to buy bitcoins, for example with visa/mastercard, there are not many trusted websites that you can go and just buy bitcoins without first validating your account with id and bla bla. Localbitcoins is also a poor choice, again the same problems and insane prices compared to the market.
full member
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Very hard to detect why people don't using bitcoin, it's individual problem for everybody, somebody don't like bitcoin, somebody is too old to start and many other reasons.

True, but I think that the reason all those who do not use the bitcoin because they thought that only a tool Bitcoin MLM or a scam. We know that bitcoin has no physical and a company that overshadows it, it could be a reason that is complained of by everyone
hero member
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Intelligence, logic, ease of use, lack of business support, volatility, 6 years of bad press, scamming (by the exchanges too), hacking (by the exchanges too). Take your pick.

I think stopping people from using bitcoin cause of bitcoin worthless when compared to the other currencies in the usage wise as well as all countries have condemned the bitcoin users, but it does not apply now because I read in the news that bitcoin is the currency exchange rate continues to rise due to halving.
legendary
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You lead and I'll watch you walk away.
Intelligence, logic, ease of use, lack of business support, volatility, 6 years of bad press, scamming (by the exchanges too), hacking (by the exchanges too). Take your pick.
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Ease of use and lack of secured hard wallets.

Hard wallets are not really secured everything in this world in not secured. Especially when monetary fund is involve. Because snatchers, hackers and people
who are interested in getting their living from robbery is always around the place.
Looking around for the transactions possible. That's why people stops from using bitcoin.
legendary
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I think one of the major drawbacks is for the newbies, and even for the experienced, it's very easy to make a mistake and end up paying a lot of money, or not enough money, but mistakingly adding or subtracting a zero or moving a comma, and BTC has no way to get refunds so..
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Ease of use and lack of secured hard wallets.
legendary
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Lack of knowledge and lack of trust in bitcoin is stopping majority of people to use it, as they are not aware what is bitcoin and how it works so we cannot expect them to use bitcoins.
I believe the risk involved in investing money in bitcoins and the volatility is also one of the main reasons why people don't trust bitcoin. They are afraid of losing money, which in fact isn't actually going to be a problem. Or at least for now.

The fact that people are afraid they'll lose a lot of money once they invest it due to market movements is definitely a concern for them to have, and I am honestly concerned about the value I have in Bitcoin being lost as well. It is relatively unlikely to go down too far from here, but that doesn't mean everything is hunky-dory either.
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