Topic: Why Our Course Exists (Read 815 times)
My goal is to bring this community together to remove the barriers to entry in the bitcoin world. We can't accept ponzi scheme or rapid dismissals. Bitcoin needs an army of well educated Evangelists to spread the world throughout the world. The Bitcoin Education Project is going to build that army.
Almost everybody I've told about bitcoin has said it sounds like a ponzi. I have trouble with that because I never thought that at the beginning. I read up on it, and it was immediately apparent to me how useful it was. The whole early adopter issue in my mind was "well, that's the risk/reward for any startup venture; a few people happening to REALLY benefit from it doesn't make it any less of a good idea". But apparently that's a really big problem for some people. Then we get in discussions about how to make it more fair, and they slowly realize that fiat is even worse, but they still don't like bitcoin, so the conversation just stops. I've tried to respond with "well there's litecoin and others which had a lot of users right at the beginning, so the early adopters were much more evened out" but all they hear is "there's an even less popular internet money that TRULY nobody uses, and already almost nobody uses bitcoin anyway".
I get very frustrated trying to talk to people about bitcoin.
I get very frustrated trying to talk to people about bitcoin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qSj24_E_lU
Without a doubt the best summary of why an education effort needs to be broadcast far and wide.
Without a doubt the best summary of why an education effort needs to be broadcast far and wide.
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