Topic: Why all the bitcoin haters? - page 4. (Read 4562 times)
They have same reason as poor people who hate any reach... Old good story..
ppl fear what they dont understand.
hate to early adopters, sheep behaviour, fear for change, not having a life
ppl fear what they dont understand.
a hater is nothing more than an outspoken skeptic, and new technologies/ideas will always have their fair share of skeptics, and even more so when that new thing operates outside of the familiar realm (such as Bitcoin, an unregulated, decentralized commodity acting as a currency)
I would say people don't like non-traditional things, completely digital things, and deregulated things. Also BitCoins are complicated (I'm still learning all the details) thus people criticize what they can't understand.
anything different must be stopped.
The system we have now is working, has worked for over 200 years, why change it.
change is bad. change is evil. change must be stopped.
The above views ARE not my own, but simply a representation of popular views that seemed appropriate to express in this thread
The system we have now is working, has worked for over 200 years, why change it.
change is bad. change is evil. change must be stopped.
The above views ARE not my own, but simply a representation of popular views that seemed appropriate to express in this thread
I would say the majority is not understanding of Bitcoin in general and is what causes the negativity.
Enjoy it, it will keep the markets fun.
Enjoy it, it will keep the markets fun.
Bitcoin has had quite a bit of main stream coverage of late. One thing that has surprised me is the amount of negativity towards it. If we want bitcoin to be successful then some though into why the natural reaction of so many people is so bad.
I think a large part of this is the thought that early adopters are arrogant, who are they to just think they can magic up this money? It's also suspicion, why should they trust people with such an obvious self interest. No doubt jealousy plays it’s part too.
Then there is lack of understanding. The concepts around how bitcoin works are not intuitive, the problems they solve are not obvious. People fear of looking stupid and resent having spending time understanding something they are suspect to be a scam.
Finally people lack vision and expect too much too soon from this young project. Right now using a clunky (sorry) desktop client to pay someone who only accepts bitcoin for fun or publicity does not seem that revolutionary. Observers may not realise there are still aspects of bitcoin being ironed out, such as tiered services and thinner clients. Anyone taking a quick look and just seeing a snapshot of what bitcoin is now misses the point and wonders what ll the fuss is about. As there is zero barrier to entry things could change extremely quickly. Anyone with a use case, from international shipping to my corner shop could start using bitcoin overnight. I think when those who have dismissed bitcoin look again they will then realise the pace of change and direction this thing is heading.
I say this from some personal experience, I didn’t get bitcoin the first time I heard about it for many of the reasons above. Open-transactions seemed much more solid (the potential for interoperability was lost on me) I actually made a point of not reading bicoin articles as I was convinced it was tosh. I did feel stupid when thepenny coin finally dropped.
I think a large part of this is the thought that early adopters are arrogant, who are they to just think they can magic up this money? It's also suspicion, why should they trust people with such an obvious self interest. No doubt jealousy plays it’s part too.
Then there is lack of understanding. The concepts around how bitcoin works are not intuitive, the problems they solve are not obvious. People fear of looking stupid and resent having spending time understanding something they are suspect to be a scam.
Finally people lack vision and expect too much too soon from this young project. Right now using a clunky (sorry) desktop client to pay someone who only accepts bitcoin for fun or publicity does not seem that revolutionary. Observers may not realise there are still aspects of bitcoin being ironed out, such as tiered services and thinner clients. Anyone taking a quick look and just seeing a snapshot of what bitcoin is now misses the point and wonders what ll the fuss is about. As there is zero barrier to entry things could change extremely quickly. Anyone with a use case, from international shipping to my corner shop could start using bitcoin overnight. I think when those who have dismissed bitcoin look again they will then realise the pace of change and direction this thing is heading.
I say this from some personal experience, I didn’t get bitcoin the first time I heard about it for many of the reasons above. Open-transactions seemed much more solid (the potential for interoperability was lost on me) I actually made a point of not reading bicoin articles as I was convinced it was tosh. I did feel stupid when the
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