Topic: Why is it so hard to get family/friends into bitcoin? (Read 4390 times)
At point when you find shop, that your family/friends are shopping often at and it is accepting bitcoin, they will easily embrace idea of different kind of payment solution.
Why is it so hard to get family/friends into bitcoin?
1) Because some/many of us don't want to tell our family/friends about BTC.
2) We tell them and it doesn't go very well.
^^^
This is clearly an important issue.
1) Because some/many of us don't want to tell our family/friends about BTC.
2) We tell them and it doesn't go very well.
^^^
This is clearly an important issue.
#2 has happened to me 2 out of the 3 times that I actually got good friends into BTC. I'm sure it will be fine in the medium to long term...but it was like insta-plummett right after they bought in...lol. Good thing that each of them just tip toed in and bought like 4-10 BTC only
i wouldnt recommend bitcoin to any of my friends and family at the moment,
bitcoin and the altcoin scene has become way to scammy to bring a noob in at this point especily my family or friends
bitcoin and the altcoin scene has become way to scammy to bring a noob in at this point especily my family or friends
Why is it so hard to get family/friends into bitcoin?
1) Because some/many of us don't want to tell our family/friends about BTC.
2) We tell them and it doesn't go very well.
^^^
This is clearly an important issue.
1) Because some/many of us don't want to tell our family/friends about BTC.
2) We tell them and it doesn't go very well.
^^^
This is clearly an important issue.
I got a few friends into it, but i regretted it, because they would text me every time it went down $5, and and ask me why it keeps crashing...LOL. I honestly think you can only briefly explain it to friends/family, and then it's up to them if they want to research and learn about it. Honestly, most people are just too lazy and complacent to try anything new because they are creatures of habit.
I always make the comparison with a Casino.
Casino: Just drop €50 on red at the roulette and it can go zero or double
Bitcoin: can go zero as well, but can reach far more than double in the long term.
Casino: You're done in a few minutes/hours
Bitcoin: Gives joy for months.
Just make sure they are willing to loose everything, just like I do myself.
Casino: Just drop €50 on red at the roulette and it can go zero or double
Bitcoin: can go zero as well, but can reach far more than double in the long term.
Casino: You're done in a few minutes/hours
Bitcoin: Gives joy for months.
Just make sure they are willing to loose everything, just like I do myself.
That is a good way to make sure they are prepared to lose, but doesn't tell them what BTC is really about.
Talked to one of my good friends I haven't seen in awhile. First thing he says is "Are you still in Bitcoins? Didn't some guy get arrested for it? Is it banned yet?"
Until we get some "real" positive news, adoption, and answers to all the regulatory questions, Bitcoin will remain on the fringe or outside of the general population.
Maybe if a Starbucks started accepting it as a pilot program, or a small country started adopting it as a supplement or substitute for their current currency, or some major advertising or marketing push occurs in the next few years.
Until then, I'll continue to tell my friends and family the positive things Bitcoin can and will do.
Still, it's a tough sledding...
Until we get some "real" positive news, adoption, and answers to all the regulatory questions, Bitcoin will remain on the fringe or outside of the general population.
Maybe if a Starbucks started accepting it as a pilot program, or a small country started adopting it as a supplement or substitute for their current currency, or some major advertising or marketing push occurs in the next few years.
Until then, I'll continue to tell my friends and family the positive things Bitcoin can and will do.
Still, it's a tough sledding...
Well maybe after the community's reputation builds up or some major company/country accepts Bitcoin people will accept it too
Bitcoin is a tech invention. It will be hard signingup Anyone not into tech, at least for now. Maybe hardware wallets will bring in more noobs.
Because bitcoin is still super not-user friendly. And they hear all the bad news in the papers. My family was like isn't bitcoin bankrupt (after mtgox closure)
Must be something wrong with your friends and family. 
NIDIAGH who posted on pg. 3 of this thread (acting all innocent) is a SCAMMER!!
DO NOT I repeat DO NOT do business with this person! they scammed me out of $500 and have ignored all of my messages since I sent the money! And this person has the nerve to continue to post on threads and attempt to scam other people. it makes me sick.
SPREAD THE WORD EVERYONE!! I DONT WANT OTHERS TO GET SCAMMED LIKE I DID!
DO NOT I repeat DO NOT do business with this person! they scammed me out of $500 and have ignored all of my messages since I sent the money! And this person has the nerve to continue to post on threads and attempt to scam other people. it makes me sick.
SPREAD THE WORD EVERYONE!! I DONT WANT OTHERS TO GET SCAMMED LIKE I DID!
Don't act like you haven't done this, cuz you know you lyin' brah?! Try to get your friends/family into bitcoin.
Like everyone I know, I try to get them into bitcoin (new users etc)
They just listen and like the idea (and sometimes get intrigued because of local news). I also test to see how a new user would get involved.
I get a little frustrated because I think it might succeed and here I am trying to educate a family member/friend on it and there like "okay thats cool, whats on tv" type of attitude.
What would it take to get people seriously behind bitcoin?
And how have you guys explained bitcoins to others (and what were the results? similar to mine or different?
[Personally this [Suspicious link removed]ite has taught me a lot and I think newer people (then me) would need something like this to get in]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reo7WbibxaQ
shit bitcoiners say xD
Like everyone I know, I try to get them into bitcoin (new users etc)
They just listen and like the idea (and sometimes get intrigued because of local news). I also test to see how a new user would get involved.
I get a little frustrated because I think it might succeed and here I am trying to educate a family member/friend on it and there like "okay thats cool, whats on tv" type of attitude.
What would it take to get people seriously behind bitcoin?
And how have you guys explained bitcoins to others (and what were the results? similar to mine or different?
[Personally this [Suspicious link removed]ite has taught me a lot and I think newer people (then me) would need something like this to get in]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reo7WbibxaQ
shit bitcoiners say xD
have tried a test on my colleagues by offering refund of 200% if bitcoin becomes worthless, and will buy back from them if bitcoin
value is lower than what they bought after holding for a year. Even tried a written contract. None works.
Unless its your really closed friends/person, you can forget about it. or maybe its bitcoin losing popularity?
i finally get my cousin's in law attention to BTC and he is now asking me how to use it and how to earn it i said to him that this time is probably the right time to buy it since its crashing down also i was shock when he ask me how much is the mining rigs cost now and how to set it up
seems my day will be much more intrested than before
seems my day will be much more intrested than beforeDon't let him mine, it's not worth it at the moment. Just Buy and HODL.
yeah i already told him about that and i suggest to him that if he really want to mine then mining some good altcoin would be ok and then trade it on btc when the price is ok
i finally get my cousin's in law attention to BTC and he is now asking me how to use it and how to earn it i said to him that this time is probably the right time to buy it since its crashing down also i was shock when he ask me how much is the mining rigs cost now and how to set it up
seems my day will be much more intrested than before
seems my day will be much more intrested than beforeDon't let him mine, it's not worth it at the moment. Just Buy and HODL.
i finally get my cousin's in law attention to BTC and he is now asking me how to use it and how to earn it i said to him that this time is probably the right time to buy it since its crashing down also i was shock when he ask me how much is the mining rigs cost now and how to set it up
seems my day will be much more intrested than before
seems my day will be much more intrested than before
I always make the comparison with a Casino.
Casino: Just drop €50 on red at the roulette and it can go zero or double
Bitcoin: can go zero as well, but can reach far more than double in the long term.
Casino: You're done in a few minutes/hours
Bitcoin: Gives joy for months.
Just make sure they are willing to loose everything, just like I do myself.
Casino: Just drop €50 on red at the roulette and it can go zero or double
Bitcoin: can go zero as well, but can reach far more than double in the long term.
Casino: You're done in a few minutes/hours
Bitcoin: Gives joy for months.
Just make sure they are willing to loose everything, just like I do myself.
It is not at all hard. Just 5 minutes of talk, and I convinced my cousin to collect BTCs.
Great! I have an investor in for $25,000
Now it's time just to set back and watch. O an the investor is Me Ooops LOL Oh... compelling people to invest money in Bitcoin is much more difficult than asking some of your friends and relatives to collect mBTCs in their spare time.
what a lovely idea. just let them install some app and show them how you can send bitcoins forth and back. awesome! if that doesn't convince them how much bitcoin will improve their everyday life, they really must be retarded.
Yea I agree, some people also dont take anything seriously if they cant understand it. I told some family friend members about bitcoin and they were not so interested, only acting it
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