Bitcoin Forum

Yesterday was a research forum of thesis school project and I actually did introduce in our system about using bitcoin as a payment processor aside from paypal,visa, bank transfer or whatsoever. I actually do assume it that no one actually cares so expected things did really happened.

 However there is this one jurry stated that bitcoin is really prawn to money laundering and he ask if how would a certain business owner risk it and that made me realize that he is somehow right and that leads to other quedtion about the exchanger sites which follows KYc policies to prevent or atleast minimize the risk of money laundering however it violates also the main feature of bitcoin which is the anonymous transactions

I understood very little of what you're trying to say here.  Have you tried the local boards?  They speak other languages there, probably ones you'd be more comfortable with.  I got that you did a presentation for school and had difficulty getting your point across, which doesn't shock me. 

But you're telling people why they ought to go out of their way to buy a magic internet currency that's extremely volatile, in order to spend it in place of fiat because...?  Good luck trying to convince people of that.  Either you like bitcoin already, or you're not going to be convinced, ever. 

No. He is not.  There is nothing about bitcoin that makes it any better for money laundering than physical cash.  As a matter of fact, it is significantly worse for money laundering than U.S. dollars.  If you want to launder money, it will be MUCH easier to do with U.S. dollars than with bitcoin.  Therefore, if this is your main concern, then you should use bitcoin and stop using U.S. dollars.


Anonymous transactions is not, and never has been a "main feature" of bitcoins.  Anyone that told you that doesn't understand bitcoin very well and is just repeating bad information they've heard elsewhere. Saying it doesn't make it true.

EVERY bitcoin transaction that has ever occurred is permanently stored in the blockchain for the whole world to see.  If you want anonymous transactions, use U.S. dollars.  Bitcoin can be easily traced in most cases, and even if you try to hide your activities there's a pretty good chance that forensic accounting software will come along eventually that can figure it out.

Introducing Bitcoin had been easier than before.  There are lots of written documents and presentation that tells about it.  Even case studies on Bitcoin.  So i do not think that introducing it is that difficult.  What difficult is, making people understand what bitcoin is, persuading them to use it instead of the traditional payment processor. It is the interest of people that is hard to get in my opinion, but still this case depends on how well you have played your aces here.

edit: the post before me has cleared some of our misconception of Bitcoin, so probably another reason  is our lack of right knowledge about Bitcoin  makes it more difficult to introduce.

Well, I am just trying to present since i am an IT students and we are talking innovation, how could they promote IOT  but not IOM?


 I actually stated that one as well to defend my project then he stated as quoted " im telling this not because i dont like or have understood bitcoin that much however in bitcoin there were no rules that can easily convict a person in doing so"

In depth knowledge should not be targeted for on a newbie introduction. There is some footage on Youtube that is presentable, and flipping through some several websites like Bitfinex et. all. should transport the picture of "something big incoming"

For the curious some Question & Answers section following days afterwards makes sense to me. Learning curve, timespans and all of that.

Dept knowledge being imparted to newbie as introduction for me is really not good especially if to whom you were talking has no idea about anything that you have said. Ive tried this before explaining to my friend an advance bitcoin lesson how ever he keeps on asking the same question all over then i decided to allow him experience first and learn the basic of how bitcoin works

I think it will still be very difficult to introduce bitcoin. In developing countries and are unfamiliar with the system would be very difficult to make people believe with bitcoin, because they already have a real doctrine that bitcoin has many risks. I've also tried to introduce a bitcoin to some of my friends in the community, but they know bitcoin for drug transactions and a lot of scam so it is not safe, although there are some who are interested but most claimed are not interested. I think most people need to see proof that they believe in, and it was very difficult. But I'm sure as time goes bitcoin will be able to take sympathy of many people.

Well, I thought, I never feel what you feel.
introduces bitcoin, made me so eager to explain it from all sides, until the profit can be made. but, they do not trust it, and said that bitcoin is simply a token that is used for gambling, and it is a scam. Well, sometimes it makes me ashamed. I think, they just need to see evidence to believe that bitcoin, could be an alternative to other payment processor.

well it's true that bitcoin can be used for money laundering, especially if you pay in bitcoin directly for goods that come from another country

how the government(fiscal agent(whatyouwant are gonna know you are paying $1k+ in illicit bitcoin to buy stuff that no one know the value about? you can't really do the same with cash so easily

Actually your panelist is somehow intelligent upon saying this.
But as a panelist maybe he is really that type of person that still needs to be explained on how really bitcoin is working. Because base on your statement on how things did go, he is just looking for the negativity which he just overheard about bitcoin for being used for money laundering. But what you are doing is good, innovation.

Thats actually where the hard part is because telling someone the advantage bitcoin possesses, you will just be so free to say it and elated at that as well but when it comes to the disadvantages which is the untraceable then everybody mind goes to the terrorists, money launderers, porn sites among other things thinking they are the only ones needing privacy in their transactions but at the same time people who dont engage in such things deserve privacy as well. The feeling that I can do this transaction and no one can know where I live is fundamental.

The difficulty in introducing bitcoin is one of the major hindrances of bitcoin being known to all. The volatility of it makes it look like a scam when you introduce  it to people who have no background in crypto. I myself thought way back in 2013 when I first heard of bitcoin that it is a scam.

Bitcoin is being used for money laundering there's no doubt about that, but in his case, he is unable
to defend his introduction of bitcoin properly resulting, to a negative image of bitcoin. But introducing
bitcoin is never easy but if you were to introduce it you should be able to answer the question they may
have to convince them about the possibilities of bitcoin.

i have a feeling that you are making it too hard when explaining it.

Op I think you did not do a good job in explaining Bitcoins. You might not have used the correct language and it's evident with the kind of response you got. Every one says Bitcoin cause money laundering, but before Bitcoin wasn't Fiat doing the same. Bitcoin is just a fraction and this money laundering is a big deal xcuse of people who do not understand it. As far exchanges are concerned, they will have to comply with the laws as they operating a business and local laws shall apply to them, you can't find fault with that.

I think what you are asking is, how can bitcoin be anonymous when you have to provide KYC at exchanges and also is bitcoin prone to money laundering.  And these are pretty simple to answer.

first of "yes" bitcoin is prone to money laundering but so is the dollar or the pound or the rupee and we should not punish the vast majority of law abiding citizens who use a technology just because a few use it for criminal enterprise.

and second yes most people will have to give over details at an exchange, which means that their bitcoin can be traced to the 1st address it moves to,  but good luck proving that any address the coins go to after that is owned by them.  ;D

it may be very difficult to introduce it in an organization, or in the classroom, because surely there will be people who want to bring you down. but I guess, it is very easy to introduce bitcoin in a group that you know, and to those who really want to know.

We all know about that with bitcoin's negative side but this is just applicable to those who are abusers as they use bitcoin for it. I guess chixka is not well prepared for it. I want to know if they wanted you to re-defense your thesis but still with bitcoin. Because if that thesis promotes helpful thing for the economy and society, it must be treated neutral, that panelist is just a real close minded one.

   You had some sort of presentation and when hurry started to ask questions you didnt have answers.
    Money laundering is happening with fiat for a long time, its hypocritical from fiat lovers to judge bitcoin. Why dont they clean their yard before they even start to talk about other yards! This kind of attitude is really annoying, dont lose your nerves in trying to explain, like The Pharmacist said: " Good luck trying to convince people of that.  Either you like bitcoin already, or you're not going to be convinced, ever. " Respect!

Introducing bitcoin is really not an easy task! Many people will question you because they will think that this is just a waste of time and even worst they will say that bitcoin is a scam. You will need a very long patience on explaining it to them. Sometimes they will ask proofs if you have gained somethinh from bitcoin. These are my experiences when I introduce bitcoin to someone. I feel you brother! Lol!

Yeah its not that easy to introduce bitcoin, you have to make sure everything is very clear and presentable to the perso  that you've been discussing. You must explain the importance of bitcoin and be an example of what you have experienced in bitcoin earning as well as its comfort to transact with.

Introducing bitcoin is not easy. some think that it is mostly used for money laundering. Some say bitcoin is mainly used for illegal activities like buying drugs, porn related things, etc. It is an accusation always made by the critics of bitcoin.I think they might be the losers of benefits of bitcoins by staying away from bitcoins.

You're true about that. Bitcoin is not that popular. In fact, i think only 5% percent of population in my country. So when you introduce bitcoin. The first thing coming  to their mind is "it just a scam". But i have a solution for that. The solution is to teach them actual demontration how use bitcoin. Maybe they will fully understand what is bitcoin.

As mentioned one cannot easily make others understand what bitcoin is all about. For a real understanding or teach someone about bitcoin as well other digital currencies better planning is a must. Also in that you should have a sketch to describe its acceptance and the potential. This makes the people to follow bitcoin in a short if interested.

About the OP, bitcoin is truly something innovative and hard to grasp as of yet. But I think the better argument for you when you were asked the question is that, fiat is also susceptible to money laundering. In fact, it is much more susceptible to laundering as it has been perfected through time. Another fact is that fiat is in reality untraceable unlike bitcoins which has the blockchain for its transactions.

You did a good thing man on trying out to explain bitcoin to anybody but just as expected they wont really not show any interest and as you said theres one who made such interrogations on which you cant really argue since its the truth on bitcoin which it would really be used on money laundering.

You are already talking about adoption of Bitcoin.  We are just on introduction.  As what you qouted said, it is easy to introduce Bitcoin since there are already documents and presentation in the internet from basic to advance explanation to make them know the all abouts of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is really is not understand able to people who don't have any knowledge about internet, even though we show them price variation and charts about bitcoin still are confusing about it. I tried to explain many people about it uses they keep on annoying me without any intention to learn.

Introducing bitcoin is much easy all it require that we do not show the ways of illegal to other while teaching them about that. It actually teach to ill minded people about the ways of crimes. If we teach them about the positive features of bitcoin then they will start to work positively in bitcoin.

correct mate if we can introduce those good uses of bitcoin and the big possibilities that by holding it they can earn good profits for sure interest will gather their mind and start reviewing those potentials just lessen the bad info about bitcoin people always looking for opportunity so why not let them check btc as well.

It was funny when I tried to introduce and inform some of my office mates about bitcoin. First thing they told is beware of it because it's a scam. These damn hyips and ponzi schemes taking advantage on crypto anonymity is damaging bitcoin and crypto's growth.

Maybe a year or two ago, this can be considered as a difficult task but not now. Those who say bitcoin is a scam just show then the current value of bitcoin and ask them how a scam be worth so much dollars.
I just give them example of how i am earning through bitcoins and that is enough for them to be convinced.

I hope it's not Kprawn  ;D [highlighted part]  ::)

On a serious note, most money laundering in the financial world is done with cash and other payment options. Will Bitcoin make it easier?

Nope, not if it's use is regulated through the 3rd parties that has to adhere to KYC/AML regulations. {Payment processors & exchanges}

The governments are already targeting mixer services and also Alt coins with more anonymity features built into the protocol to prevent

this scenario in the future.  :(

Never try to force your opinions and ideas to people and expecting them to follow, when people want nothing to do with bitcoin let them be.
Not every one use their brains when comes to really using their brains :D they are too lazy to calculate and compute what's really going on.
I have trouble understanding the whole thing myself, but I do get and can see the bigger picture.

Introducing in bitcoin is very hard because it takes too much time and we cant see all informations about bitcoin in one place in short amount of time.It is easy to understand what is bitcoin,how we can use bitcoin,why bitcoin is better than paypal,fiat money,skrill,neteller,payeer or any other wallet.The most hardest thing to understand about bitcoin is for me mining details and also things like bitcoin blocks and that things confusing me.Also number of blocks which mining giving when we have mining equipment confusing me.Also I dont know alomost nothing about which type of equišment we need for mining and how to trade with bitcoin and altcoins like a pro is also new for me.

Yes I agree, Introducing bitcoin to someone is not easy enough especially if you introduced it into closed minded person and a person that is not willing to learn about bitcoin. I'm surely they won't learn it.

Yeah even I have faced the same problem with the people around me as when I told them about bitcoins they were simply not interesting in knowing it as they had fear of loosing their money in it as they feel that bitcoin will not survive in a long run and rest of them found it complicated.

I am pretty confident that trying to introduce someone in bitcoin is difficult. There were two times in the recent past I tried to speak about bitcoin and one I was taking part in a meet up which organized in the auditorium of a university with two or three speakers. It really depends from the age, culture, education and familiarity with internet and computing. The most skeptical are people in middle age or older with little or no experience with the web and computing who believe that the real money must have physical substance ie the paper banknotes. On the other side students at first "sth they had listen or read"  but they had many questions and they were willing to do their own research.

Yes and youth will surely adopt bitcoins and will try to learn more about it as they are very much tech savvy and want to learn new things but that doesn't goes with the older generation as bitcoin is totally new for them and they may find it hard to use bitcoins and will prefer to go with fiat or credit cards.

Yes I agree with this point. Even while discussing it with friends or explaining them about bitcoin is not an easy task because we have to tell them from level 0 as they usually don’t have any idea about what cryptocurrency is all about and making sure that we don’t misrepresent or misguide them is the most important thing IMO.  I am sure more and more people would hear about bitcoin and then it will be easier to explain them.

Really its not that easy to introduce bitcoin as a bitcoin is itself a very large and widely spread in the online market!! Also its rules and process are also very hard to understand for a new person.

I think we need to keep things simple at the initial stage and should not show them the technical aspects of bitcoins and should show them how can they earn money with bitcoins and can convert those bitcoins to real money as everyone loves extra money and this may attract them to start using bitcoins.

It will also depend the person you are dealing with if he is attracted towards new technology and don't have a habit of learning something new then we cannot expect that he will start using bitcoins and the fact is people have full time job and for the same reason they cannot spare time for bitcoins so they prefer to stay away from it.

Its very hard to introduce bitcoins to the people around you I tried to explain to my family members but they were simply not interested in knowing or understanding it but few of my friends found it an great concept and started to learn more about it and now some of them are a part of this forum and earning good amount of bitcoins from signature campaign and hopefully the number of friends will keep on increasing in coming years.

The best way is to explain what you're doing right now in your bitcoin business. and don't forget to explain most of your earnings, If you can't show off your income from bitcoin, you have to chase the story from now. Most people wouldn't understand if it's just reading the title of a book. They just need action and success stories. Obviously, using bitcoin is not prohibited by anyone.

The government is doing what is right, we should not question their decision. In fact, we cannot use our bitcoin if we prefer to be anonymous online since if we choose to, we will not choose to convert our bitcoins to fiat which is made by the government. Exchange sites are like bank when it's regulated, they are directed to keep our personal or private information as a secret just like a bank secrecy law but required to submit necessary information to combat money laundering activities.

In op's case he lost his cool at the first hard question about bitcoin being used mainly as money laundering tool.
To promote bitcoin in a effective way you have to be really knowledgeable about the subject you are advocating.
I am not talking about deep technical knowledge, but at least you have to know some bitcoin myths to be ready to debunk them.

You will have to know what to say in case someone accuse bitcoin of:
- being one giant Ponzi,
- being illegal currency
- being worthless because is not backed by anything
- having no intrinsic value
- being used by tax evaders
- no chargeback mechanism makes bitcoin bad
- being easily hackable

etc.

Introducing bitcoin is not that easy especially when talking to it to the public, it sounds weird to them, and letting them know how do bitcoin works. Because even me at first I find it hard to understand on what is bitcoin, on how does it works, how it circulate in web itself, many questions pop up into my mind when I heard bitcoin, it was just introduced to me by my friend who is earning too here.
It is hard to explain then for new users. But the effective way is to let them watch videos I guess, because language matters on introducing it, if wrong words used it might cause it to ignoring bitcoin.

I has to teach my friend about Bitcoin i need long time to teach Him about Bitcoin, even i'm telling bitcoin over and over He will ask the same question in future, and i make summarizing teach Bitcoin with people who have zero knowledge about Internet is like doing things in vain, moreover He won't to make own research.

It really is complicated to make people have the same view about Bitcoin as we do. One thing I try to explain is about the defects of fiat money and how Bitcoin corrects it, it spends some time, but it is more productive.

I find it really difficult to introduce bitcoin to other people,
When I introduce bitcoin to my friends and family they just told me that I was just wasting my time on it,
That bitcoin is just a scam it doesn't really have a value

i think the jury know bitcoin from the wrong info and judge bitcoin for illegal activity, i think that jury need to read about bitcoin first then he will know that bitcoin is a good investment that he can makes too like other people. the bitcoin have bad reputation by using for ponzi, hyip, illegal activities and we need to introducing bitcoin so people will not make wrong perception with bitcoin.

I think if he be a jury he had learned what it was bitcoin, with all things related to the advantages or illegal activities that use bitcoin. And I think he was not get wrong information dude. He may not be a jury if he is not competent in the world of bitcoin.

Btw, in my country to introduce bitcoin is not a difficult or easy things. Because my country have power of the media and that can be use to promoted bitcoin. Thank you

I think it’s less about price and money and more about ease of doing a transaction so job won’t affect the person’s learning interest about this technology. I know some individuals who are highly impressed with this technology and they have invested their funds as well as time in order to build something out of it, irrespective of their opportunity costs.

If people could able to saw that they could able to make money through bitcoin then they would surely got interested but mostly people i believe would go on the features and benefits that it gives. If they got impressed then they will surely jump in but its not really easy to explain to anybody about bitcoin.

I think you were not smart enough to tell the jury that bitcoin can be the very best solution for money laundering. Unlike dollars which can be exchanged physically and leave no trace of transactions, bitcoin can be traced through its transactions. Although it is anonymously transacted, it is very easy to trace every truncation. in regards to KYC, it depends with the transacting entity, they might need to do it before accepting any bitcoin transaction. Just do a little bit more research and you will realize that it actually easy to explain to the jury

Hey guys this ain't school to write an essay with the subject being the title of this thread. people are either re*ards or m*rons, that is why introducing that chick (BTC) to them is hard. we live in a world where some people see a car they try to feed it like a horse, what do you really expect? first rule of teaching is, try to teach someone who has the desire to learn. we can't just put everything on the table all together and expect they swallow it all and understand it, just give them time and they will eventually come around.

I also in the same situation as you. Many people in my country, even my family, do not like Bitcoin and they think that Bitcoin are related to some Multi-Level Marketing or the ponzi scheme because many bad people have used Bitcoin as a tool to steal other people money. Therefore, it kinda waste of time to introduce people here about it. However, in the future, I believe that their mindset will be changed because the technology keep developing and it forces people to learn and adapt to new inventions or they will be obsoleted

I actually do, I have introduced him the exchanger site that i was only recommending. That site is somewhat similar to coinbase it follows a KYC policy to prevent or lessen money laundering.

He really is a smart guy, the other 2 jury doesn't have any single idea what are we debating during that time tho

I wonder how you explained bitcoin to them. I think they misunderstood, but there is possibility that you explained bitcoin in a wrong way. I just want to ask you, in what language did you explain bitcoin to them? your native language or English? and what did you emphasize about bitcoin?

Then this jury is focusing on bitcoins risks. but rather than letting him focus on one problem you should've
presented other features of bitcoin(I'm sure this will bring more questions) to expand his knowledge about bitcoin a little more
and stop him from focusing on one problem. while you are explaining bitcoin he will realize the other problems that bitcoin has, but putting a little solution to that problem(just like KYC policy) will lessen the weight of the problem, and you should highlight the benefits and possibilities rather than focusing how to defend one problem.

Anyway, are you going to have another thesis defense?

The best way to answer a question is by returning the question. If they ask that bitcoin is prone to money laundering ask them also if fiat currency is not prone to money laundering. If they ask that it used in black market then you return the question, is USD not used in black market, what are the americans used in buying illegal drugs, weapons isnt it US dollars.  Then when they answer the question you will reply that bitcoin is like US dollars, it is a currency online and has value and thats why it is not the currency that is the problem but it is the users.

Well i just explained to them that for a reservation system that we proposed i would like to introduce to you all bitcoin a much better way of payment processor lesser fees and better security.


Yup i guess the idea of this one jury was only the downside and he only ask if how can we solve that kind of problem(which is money laundering if we use it as a payment processor, I actually said that one you have stated and he just agreed on it however there were still doubts lol
Actually that one was only an introduction that is why I did proposed btc because there were a lot of audience that includes lower years like 3rd down to first year students and it is the best way to introduced btc :D

That wouldn't help the defense at all, it will just show that you are not capable of bringing/proposing
a solution to the problem in question. if you do that you already lost your defense.



I see! It's great that you thought about presenting bitcoin rather than another topic which you may already know and familiar with and can defend it much easier than bitcoin.

Someone will be hard to know or explain about bitcoin if they don't want it. But they want to know about bitcoin, they will learn about it and looking for any articles, websites, books, friends that knowing bitcoin. It's all about will.
Me too, when I first heard a friend talk about bitcoin, I don't understand it and I am not interest on it. But when I see someone on the internet explain how bitcoin work and show his profit I 100% interest. It's because I love money, and he showed me money.

It is not that easy to convince people who don't know the meaning or working of Bitcoins. Most of the outsiders think it as a way to launder money.  :(
And yes I can understand how you feel when some exchanges ask for KYC and we have to do them in order to withdraw or deposit Fiat.  :-\

I was going to say almost same words. That member of the jury was saying words he/she heard from the media, and they actually have no clue by themselves. That's a problem with modern education system - students know more than their teachers. I don't even know what to suggest for OP to do because exposing their ignorance he might get himself in troubles.

It was a presentation guys and the job of the jury is to question the obvious flaws of the presented topic
and the job of the presenter of the topic is to defend the topic he presented. the jury is not familiar about bitcoin
that's why he ask a common question, it's not hypocritical to ask an obvious problem, isn't it?

Definitely. It's really normal to ask whether bitcoin is getting used for laundering money or not due to lack of knowledge regarding bitcoin if they already know the answer then why did they ask that question?
and in my opinion that asking such question doesn't mean the jury is fiat lover or whatever, the jury is just curious and want the right answer to make things clear.
And at the end when you have done your explanation to the jury, it's them who will make a decision to whether keeping trusting what media said or turning back and return to the truth.

Because the problem is still unsolved or don't have yet a solution, that's why proving one is a must,(I know that fiat is being used to money laundering, but the government created a law to prevent or punished anyone caught doing it and bitcoin don't/doesn't have that law.)and in his case, KYC policy is what he presented as a solution.

The hard part, of course, is to make people understand that the current financial model, in which fiat currencies are based, is a model full of failures, and the causes of such failures are mainly the centralization points that exist in such a system. If people understand this, it will be easier for them to understand the importance of Bitcoin, because Bitcoin solves such problems by eliminating such points of centralization, thereby eliminating problems such as inflation.

Introducing bitcoin is truly very hard. In my view explain with the good thing bitcoin has, never and ever try to explain bitcoin in relation to gambling. The hardest part people easily understands it and ends up in a short.

We cannot blame people, the first time I heart it  I think this is just a waste of time and bitcoin is just like any networking company who invites you and all you have to do is to invite friends for you to earn, but I was wrong. Then, the time that I want to share this good news to my friends they don't believe me until I let them see my first pay out and they were all amaze and get interested but never had the chance to join here.

It would be a Herculean task to introduce bitcoins.
To get this as a good practice in the minds of the poeple.they need to get out of the typical middle class mindset of thinking it not to be safe.
The media has a major role to play in this they have to set up a good example amomg people for bitcoins.people who don't know about it think it to be a form of gamble etc where as ironically people who like it like it like hell.
The economists of the State who control it's policies should promote em and think good about em.
Also controlling committee of bitcoin should not hide it's identity(as that is one of major reasons why people think it to be insecure) and try to promote its trade.

Same as yours when i first hear about bitcoin i thought it was just an another mlm networking again which i dont pay attention until i discovered later on for myself the benefits and usage of its which really caught my interest and later on i do make self study without the need of someone.

Same here even I found little bit boring and complicated at the initial stage but I came to know very early about its potential and started to develop interest in it and started to research about it and now I am motivating people around me to start using bitcoins.

My primary objective during the forum was to actually brought the idea of this currency on the digital world. Although they seems not to care because of not understanding the thing the objective was met because at first it caught their attention

It can be difficult at primary stage to make people understand about the concept of bitcoins but if we show them how it can give them extra money to them by simply spending few hours on this forum and how can they convert their bitcoins to real money then it will surely help in motivating them to start using bitcoins.

I did already expect them not to understand it however i was still sucessful on introducing it to them and just like us , only those who are interested would be a part of our community in the near future

That's all that you can do to be honest. There's no point for anyone to try and force people to join the Bitcoin community, if they want to join it then let them at their own volition, if they don't care then I don't know why anyone would bother forcing the issue. Just let people do what they want and that'll have better results.

Exactly I tried to explain it to my friends but when they didn't show any interest then I decided that I will not waste my time behind them instead I will use that time in earning bitcoins and I am sure those guys will definitely regret in future for not entering into bitcoins at the right time and at that point of time I will have the last laugh.

This thing which really me regret since the first time i heard about bitcoin because if i jumped in on that time then maybe i am rich for now.Yes i agree with you i really somehow boring for me on its initial stage but well i should move on and continue to engage to bitcoin even more. Sharing my ideas to my family and relatives would be the first step.

In present generation people are very commercial even i explained many times to family about bitcoin and what are the benefits you are going to get after using use it. Explained them very clearly about bitcoin and how much income you will make, every thing i explained but they refused me. One day i came to know that they are using bitcoin they are impressed with the outside person who explained about bitcoin.

well most of us now is regreting not knowing the bitcoin earlier we could say that now we are rich or we already buy some stuffs or sort of expensive things that came from bitcoin ! Now we should move on and make more effort now so that we could earn a ton of profit lets buy now because we will regret is in the future

We human become intelligent day by day the things we see the sound that we hear so button is a different type of concept ad it's not that easy to make someone give the exact idea of bitcoin is. Many people have no idea of cryptocurrency so it's difficult to explain them about button. But once they start using bitcoin then definitely it won't take much time to learn the technology

agree with warwar said, we are having difficulties to explain bitcoin to other people because their mind can not accept that there is another work, investment, and saving that they can use to make their life be better. i am sure that if people are know about the value of bitcoin then they will use bitcoin for daily.

Yup, good thing is that there were few student who approached me regarding with this one and I gladly explain more on how it works and told them that if you were aiming for a freelance job then this payment processor is the best suited for you especially if you don't have bank accounts or whatsoever

Why would we regret on something that we do not know :)?  Instead let's be happy that we are one of those few percentage of people who are actively participating in Bitcoin economy.  I agree we should move on with enthusiast and hope that we will be able to follow the trailss of those who got first in Bitcoin scene.

Thou I really love sharing bitcoin to my friends so that they will know and get involve with BTC but only a few got interested with it lol.

It is a good way to introduce bitcoin, let their curiosity to grow and when they really interested it will be easier for us to teach and introduce bitcoin, we are hoping more enthusiastic young generation join bitcoin, so we will have more user and this young generation hopefully can bring a lot of advantages for bitcoin

I am very much up to it. This coming feb 14 would be our next event and during this time we will be demonstrating our system not just on the 3rd year students anymore or IT department but this includes all the students that visit our booth and this can be the best time to present this one, I'll keep on posting for updates  ;)

Introducing bitcoin to others is hard especially to those people who are not open minded, they don't look it in a positive way. It is uneasy also to prove them if you don't have a proof of achievements that using bitcoin is such a great opportunity. You should have first gain some of encouraging moments with BTC before you tell them.

I realized that it's not just Bitcoin that people can not understand. Many people fail to understand basic concepts of economics, and this is a factor that compromises Bitcoin's understanding. It may be necessary to first explain things like inflation, centralization and other problems, then it will be easier for people to understand Bitcoin, because Bitcoin solves these problems.

Introducing bitcoin to people around you is the most challenging job to have especially when people don't have any idea about the latest technology and in that case it will be really difficult to convince them or motivate them to start using bitcoins as they are not tech savvy then won't entertain bitcoins and would treat it as a waste of time and money.

The only thing you need is the "trust" on the Bitcoin itself, if you don't even trust the Bitcoin how can you convince other people about it. If you already in doubt just because some statements/questions from a person, then you surely don't have enough trust on Bitcoin.
It is indeed hard to introduce Bitcoin to the mainstream people but if you believe in it, trust me it would be so much easier.

Convincing people around you would be possible only if you have good convincing power and good knowledge about bitcoin as its normal that people would be having lots of questions in their minds when you tell them about bitcoins and if you are not able to answer their question confidently then I am sure they will not trust bitcoins.

Bitcoin can be used to launder money and can be used for illegal activity, but it is not completely anonymous. Those that use it illegal activity can sometimes be caught as in the case of Silk Road. Let's also not forget that fiat currencies can and are used for illegal activities as well.

It would be easy to convince people who are potential that they can adopt with bitcoin, that is because the information is very transparent and one can access that in the internet in just a matter of seconds and he can do a deep research by his own so you do not need to explain further. However, there are people who really cannot comprehend with the technology and they will remain be using fiat.

introducing bitcoin is somewhat easy these days. you can check on youtube, there are lots of videos out there where you can let others to watch it for simple demonstration about what really bitcoin is. you can also have them read a lot of journals and other documents either a hard copy or over the internet. to those who are not into bitcoin of course they will not believe the value of it because they have not enough knowledge about it. but if they are being feed about how they will be able to benefit about cryptocurrency, then i know for sure they will love to know more about bitcoin.

If we say bitcoin equals money, then everyone will quickly understand. In my opinion, introduce the bitcoin is not difficult, depending on how we are talk. We recommend that you use a parable that bitcoin it equals money, so people will be interested to find and use it.

The biggest problem is on how a lot of people still live traditionally
They really hard to accept any kind form of technology including bitcoin
So it's feel useless when you talking about digital money that could replace fiat money position
They think a technology just make things complicated but actually it's created to make your life easier.

Yes it is because of bitcoin is still not popular on every countries include on my local area
actually it is because of my introducing about bitcoin is not consistently to the people on my local area.
And there are not practice about usage of bitcoin for payment method on local area
should I there are store that accept bitcoin on my local area will be easy introducing about bitcoin.

I explained bitcoin to my relative and she asked: what if the boss behind bitcoin ran away..........................

If it had happened, maybe it would've happened in 2013 when the price went over $1200 or even before. At this moment, he would have over $18 billions and.. I think it would be enough, wouldn't it? Just saying.. plus that Bitcoin's fall would probay make all the cryptocurrencies existing fall too, like a domino, and as soon as he would close Bitcoin and run away with all the money nobody will exchange it into fiat anymore, so it'd become worthless.

Lol  ;D , you could have answered, you could have been a millionaire if you had witnessed it way back 2010. (Founder (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3))


We cannot force people to change view instantly.  It really needs time.  Same way Bitcoiners perception onf Altcoins.  Altcoin enthusiast cannot make this solid bitcoiners to change cards immediately.  It needs time and proof that Bitcoin is not what they think it is.

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As I said Introducing Bitcoin is easy because of lots pf materials available in the internet.  The problem is the audience who is willing to absorb and adopt bitcoins system and concept.

as op said, many people who argue that bitcoin is a means for crime it's true because bitcoin uses anonym system where no one knows the identity of the sender, despite of several articles stating bitcoin is also one of the means to police investigators / fbi to catch something big

it is sad if many people in outside just think that bitcoin is for crime without any explaining that bitcoin is like fiat that can use for good and bad thing. but if we take a look from news especially with the investing programs that using bitcoin, then maybe we need to make a clear statement that in that programs, they only use bitcoin as the payment and bitcoin is not created by them and they should responsible if bad thing is happen and they don't have to blame bitcoin for the mistake.

I have bit of experience in this case because when i was noob in bitcoin then also people used to explain me so much still I couldn't able to grasp how the coin is and how it looks. And when I started to explain bitcoin to other guys then also he couldn't understand because its total different form of money and we have never encountered such type of money before so it takes time to know how the coin is.

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people who are not familiar
in bitcoin have difficulty
in understanding how bitcoin
works but it is worth to introduce
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Yeah it sure does make it sound like a scam. People would be thinking "But I can lose my money!" when they remember the last time prices fell. IMHO that's the hardest objection to get through. The average person don't really care about stuff like anonymity, they care about their money's security.

We know that it is difficult to introduce bitcoin. If you always thinking that negative thoughts you can't introduced the bitcoin to others confidently but if you tried, you understand that it is ok. And I know the other reason why it is hard introduced bitcoin because they thinking in advance and asking to himself," what if they did not accept bitcoin". You know its ok but the important is you tried your very best of it and there is exact time for you.

Bitcoin technology is completely different one, really it is very hard to explain. Many people asked me how to mine bitcoin, i explained to them very clearly about it. They said only answer to me is i don't believe internet currency.

Since bitcoin is not very popular to our country, maybe is it very hard to introduce bitcoin in many people.

The time when my friend introduced bitcoin to me, well, it is very hard understand as well, i have many questions about it. I don't know if im going to join here, if would i really understand about the used of bitcoin. Then suddenly, it appeared in my mind, that there's nothing to lose if im going to try, so i tried it because im curious. I saw here that i can catch some information the abouts if bitcoin through in forums. And i found out that through bitcoin, it will help us users to have freedom to share the ideas and also gain small extra income.

I think they are afraid to try because they thought there is in an involve of money to invest but without knowing they can make money for free like what I have done almost a year, I only pay for electric and internet bills. If you really want to invite a friend you need to guide him all throughout the process until he learned the things he should know.

Exactly! Even how difficult bitcoin to understand is, if they are interested then they will learn bitcoin in a way like reading in the forums, searching in the internet. But if they don't like it, then it is more difficult one. It is very hard to understand especially if you don't like what you've doing.

That's right. I faced same problems when I have tried to explain bitcoin and how it works to people around me. But I have not succeed. Maybe mostly because of all my people do not know English so good. But I'm sure that every country already created their local bitcointalk site on local language.

maybe the way you present in class less complete and attractive, that the problem of money laundering using bitcoin it may issue being aggressively addressed to bitcoin, so this pr for users of bitcoin is there a proper way to let go of the issue of bitcoin

Well, there are many countries which are not support by Bitcointalk in the local section and I do not think that the local boards are helpful to all of us. English is not a problem. I can easily translate things into my local language to help people fully understand Bitcoin. Unfortunately, they do not accept this currency because they scare of it. I do not know why but they do not want to involve in some things like Bitcoin. It is really weird. I can only convince my GF to use Bitcoin with me

You presented a thesis about it to the people who doesnt even have a clue. Well, you did expected their response so there is no regret for you. But still that could have been a good chance. If only you just lifted up bitcoin as a means of payment to whatever "system" it is that you are working with then it could have been a better flow.

A simple introduction would do, just saying it is a like money online then they might understand. You're IT's you say, then they know the online world so that is the real easy way. Missed opportunity, try again next time. Oops! If there is one.

I have ever experienced, introduce bitcoin not easy. they just think that bitcoin is the same with the deposit money then transfer or withdrawal the money. They do not think that bitcoin many benefits especially for investment.

I love this idea. However, even if they understand about Bitcoin, they still doubt whether Bitcoin is really a type of currency or not because most of the tradition cash are paper but Bitcoin is the algorithm and based on computer and the internet. The lack of knowledge will lead us to many bad results and I do not think that 1% of them will agree to use Bitcoin

maybe he presented it less complete, but if the jurry aren't familiar with bitcoin, then there's no doubt they won't understand it even he presented it very well.

Well, tbh its really hard, aside from people who are in the 90s who are maybe 30+ and above, even teenager who are young who have access to internet a lot might not accept it. Because its too unrealistic for them to believe that, something which is virtual do hold the currency value. I Did try to explain to my friends on bitcoin, the transaction, blockchain and so. But ya, base on many comments above, introducing bitcoin really ain't that easy. Perhaps you might introduce it to 10 people, but only 1 would buy that idea i suppose

Indeed yes! Understanding Bitcoin is not a mere solution to a periphery Bitcoin adoption problem. The main problem is people don't feel any requirement to implement Bitcoin in their living. For them, Cash and paper money is sole mean of currency and Bitcoin is just a development project with no guarantee!
This is the reason why we see more attraction towards Bitcoin as investment than currency!

But what if to say that Bitcoin is not only just money but that it is a very valuable currency and to show them the exchange rate? From my experience when people hear that 1 coin costs hundreds of US Dollars they start being interested.

It is easy for anyone to explain about bitcoin. Think about your start when and why you started to adopt bit[Suspicious link removed]n the same manner and tell him the same things which you find in bitcoin and you will find him getting interest in bitcoin.

Regarding her statement, the irony lies in the fact that there is no boss controlling Bitcoin, there are large holders, and it is possible that Satoshi is the greatest of them. But it's like you said, if his intention was to dump the coins, he would have done it in 2013. And if he decides to do that in the future, it's his coins, so he has the right to do that.
The first reaction of the market would surely be panic, but after that what we would have would be a greater distribution.

You and me started bitcoin, because we have interested on crypto currencies to know about them, and also we have awareness about online work. But i saw majority who have no interested in bitcoin, because they don't know very well about online system, that's why they avoid it and few people are there who have no trust on bitcoin, because they think it never work in future.

Its not easy to explain because of the technicality of Bitcoin and how it works. I do find it hard sometimes to explain to my friends who like to bet in personal and saying to them that betting online is much easier and you can have many options to do about your betting online. If only they are open minded about new things related to internet then it is easier for them to absorb what knowledge I'm having now about bitcoin.

I think if you are to explain something to a first time listener, you will not go to the detailed structure of bitcoin.  You only needs the basic function and usage of bitcoin.  And it is not that hard in my opinion.  For masses to adopt Bitcoin we do not need to explain the in-depth structure of bitcoin.  That will only confuse the audience.

Well if your friends is not interested you can not push them like my cousin even i explain all what the benefits if they use bitcoin they are just acting that they are interested but honestly sooner ignoring it..
So i think for those who are interested almost have knowledge about programming or computer illiterate..
I was interested when i was saw bitcoin in the forum.. if they are looking what they are that in bitcoin they will use bitcoin..

For first time listeners we can make them understand the basic by explaining its value, but the real difficult in giving explanation takes place when they start exploring and know more about bitcoin themselves. I feel happy of making few of my surrounding at least know the existence of bitcoin.

I remembered when I first heard Bitcoin, it was very deep and really difficult to understand.  And I know I'm not the only one here who encountered those things. Because it take months before I fully understand what bitcoin is really all about.

Not only for you it takes me more than a month to learn about bitcoin, i am very new to this computer terminology it is very hard to understand some technical term about bitcoin. I spend more time in learning about bitcoin and even i tried to explain many of my friend but they are confusing about bitcoin.

I guess you need not to strain yourself to completely know about bitcoin just for the reason of using it bot both the cases of using it for currency as well as investments. Because over time by using bitcoins in different wallets and just mining altcoins surely will learn each and every aspects of bitcoin ecosystem.

Just treat your friend in your point of view, if you are ready to spend time then your fiend's confusions will find answers.

It took a friend more than 8 months to convince me to adopt bitcoin. First, It doesn't make sense to me, like what is internet  money? I barely hear it on the TV or radio. Secondly, my challenge was where can I get this so called bitcoin. Then i was introduced to bitcointalk, my first week was the complain of spamming  and terrible bully harassing me on the forum. I got little education from my friend, but he thought I was intelligent enough to get along with the forum. He thought I can make a better use of the 24g data plan I make every month. At the end of my first  4 months, I was already trading with up to 1 bitcoin without bringing any money to the forum. Now i dont need anyone to advise me to put more money into bitcoin
What is my main idea about the story? You may never get it easier to introduce people to bitcoin, but if you really want to help someone keep introducing them, to make it easier introduce to the smart ones. More also introduce bitcointalk, bitcointalk makes the education on bitcoin easier

introducing and understanding bitcoin is difference  thing, people first need to know about bitcoin, they should first introduce about the benefit of bitcoin, and after they when they take interest in bitcoin, then they will try their self to understand bitcoin. but i think the most important thing is to know know about bitcoin.

According to my experience if someone will want to learn about bitcoin themselves without any tutor/teacher than it will take more times for him to learn about bitcoin while if someone will learn about bitcoin with the help of someone else then it will not take much time for him to learn. If you teach your friends in a proper method then they will not get confused.

I do not believe on that whooole “people think bitcoin is for bad people”, a study showed that over 90% of dollars have cocaine traces on them. Does that mean all people who use dollar banknotes also did cocaine? No.

When someone sells a drug or something illegal what did they used before bitcoin was created? Fiat currency. I think bitcoin just makes it easier to hide for them maybe and yes maybe Al Capone wouldn’t get jailed if there was bitcoin but in general bitcoin is not making anyone do things they wouldn’t do.

The problem is that vast majority of people are still bound to that centralized concept of everything, for them it is needed to have central authority or some higher power ruling things.
Decentralization is alien and undesired - first question I usually get when I try to teach someone of BTC is: "but how BTC can be currency if there is no one backing it?".
With this type of mindset there is really little you can do to convince people that BTC can be successful sovereign digital currency backed by all its users.

Introducing bitcoin to a friend or relative isn’t that hard, convincing them to use it is another thing. Some of my friends think that stocks and other stuff are too complex, which makes bitcoin sound Greek to them. But I was still able to convince some to try and buy a few bitcoins just so they can have a bit of experience by holding it in their wallet and hopefully using it for their future transactions.

Introducing bitcoin WAS not easy.
But now it is a big currency. Many people now invest in bitcoin.
Many new things / companies/ firms have started accepting bitcoin.
Making purchases with steam is very easy .
I buy many things on Steam.
Even I have heard of Starbucks accept bitcoin.
So you guys can even try that.

Yes!You are right,that is why my opinion is going to same.Now it is pretty easy introducing bitcoin around the people.There so many resource for learning about bitcoin because of bitcoin spreading continuously.Most of users involved with this cryptocurrency but in near past situation was different.

Yeah introducing bitcoin to a new person is truly a hard task. As said people had started to invest into bitcoin. Introducing bitcoin to others can be easy when we explain it relating to their own regular needs. Basically explaining about the acceptance in a particular shop to a person who often uses the particular store helps understand easily.

The problem is in my area many people still don't know about bitcoin, when every i say any internet things they keep saying fake and fake. We don't believe in bitcoin, they begin saying we have seen articles in news paper daily about it. Very soon this scheme is going to shutdown by the government.
I don't know why they have false mind in internet currency.

Maybe I will try the Starbucks starting to accept bitcoin trick :D But in my case, after many times of introducing bitcoin to many of my friends and even my family, most of the times took me by surprise. I though they would know nothing about bitcoin because it's the common fact in my place, but it seemed to be they knew a lot but in a negative way :'( They all turned down the idea that bitcoin would bring profit. And it's extremely hard to persuade them to use bitcoin.

The lack of knowledge has lead us to the bad results and I can not insult them because of this fact. The region affects the people a lot since if you are living in the third world countries, I can ensure that you will never know what Bitcoin is. Furthermore, the more developed the country is, the higher chance the people can access the new technology. Therefore, in my opinion, we have to wait in order for other countries can adapt to other part of the world then we can introduce it to the people

In every country has different regulations about cryptocurrency to prevent any kind of illegal activity or money laundering, especially regulations regarding exchanges as the door to convert bitcoin into fiat money.
Bitcoin is not fully anonymous as the transaction permanently included in blockchain which can be traced and lead to whoever use it.
On the other hand, fiat money without banking system is the one as anonymous transaction, it cannot be traced due to there is no any record.

Indeed it takes time very long , but at least there is an effort to make them interested
Traditional people really hard to be introduced to bitcoin, there is a lot of strange things for them
Even in some places people hard to learn about how computer works!
Then i will just give up if the situation like that happened.

It's easier to introduce the bitcoin in more developed countries where people are more educated about technology but in less developed countries people could be even more interested in bitcoin because it could give them a new opportunity to improve their lives so promoting bitcoin and explaining how it works it's crucial.

i think is not easy, because op not only introduce to new bitcoin user
OP want create bitcoin topic , to thesis in study, write and must explain to examiner is not easy and very difficult

The way I did it with my wife was to start up with faucets and introduce the economy by showing its history.

Not much takes away from the quality of growth outperforming its entire sequence, we still get incredible gains that make this currency a better investment than grade A stocks.

Get pumped for the incredible outlook about everything brought into this new multi-purpose dream come true.

Tho i wanted to invite them there is no need for me to guiide them the process unless there would be someone who would ask me(for curiosity) well in the first place i only wanted to impart to them that this thing exist

Guiding them would really be a great problem and takes a lot of effort. If they want to get into bitcoin they should have the initiative and not really for us to spoon feed them. Probably the best thing we all can do is make something like a book, like "bitcoin for dummies" kind of thing. That would cater to newbies to bitcoin and quickly guide them on how it works and what are the opportunities we have in here.

I think it depends on the people and their education, if we tell them the bitcoin on ordinary people surely they are difficult to understand, but if we introduce students to their course bitcoin soon learned. Nothing is difficult for us to think positive.

Even on schools, if we introduce it to professors or any active people in the school, it won't be easy for them to accept it if they don't want to, and if their focus is not into it. In short introducing to everyone is good, however expecting that all of them will like bitcoin, that's wrong.

Better wait until someone approaches you and ask what is bitcoin than keep on pushing it on someone who do not like it.

I think its not such a difficult job it just need some good practice. We can explain bitcoin to someone very easily and in a good way. I think we do not need to go with such deep detail, we can introduce bitcoin its importance its purpose and they how to use it, I think that is enough for a common user.

And in addition to this concerns, most people are closing their eyes even they see the proof already still they are blinded and very much closed minded into the concepts of what bitcoin is really all about. though we knew it is anonymous, and easy to set up compare to other thing out there.

Maybe no one cared about your research is because it is already there. I mean using bitcoin as a payment processor is already existing and bitcoin users are already using that. It is not new to the society. Maybe trying something else will do, like inventing a hardware that can mine bitcoin in a very convinient price that can afford by anyone or make a program on how to process bitcoin on the blockchain without any traffic, something like that.

I can feel my roomates laughing deep inside everytime I talk about bitcoin. Well FUCK them bitcoin is becoming 2000 this 2017.  ;D :D

Money laundering s not so much popular through bitcoins
There are many documentaries , articles and magazines are there that would help you to make understand them bitcoin is a currency other than fiat.introduction to me ehoch is totally is always hard to explain but it is not that it is not explainable .

from the beginning one of the bitcoin feature is anonymous transactions right! But now governments and nations will not what the transactions to be anonymous because if the allowed that evil people will use it to perpetrate they evil desire. Corrupt politicians will use it for money laundering. I wish bitcoin should only be use as digital assets like gold instead of using it as a currencies.

Today was our final oral defense and luckily i was able to explained properly the process and panel did agree with my hypothesis. Lower years were also asking if what does bitcoin payment can actually do. I explained everything to them and some also said that is good and easy. We might be able to use it as well in our thesis project

It also depends on how will you look bitcoin. Well, bitcoin is best way for money laundering and that's why someone afraids but at the same time someone is happy for that fact. On another side bitcoin is great investment because of it's often changeable price. So introducing of bitcoin also depends on person's interests. If anyone don't wants to look reality, you can't do anything.

yea because its not a common technology that everyone could ever imagine without actually using it. even this applies for me too because I was not able to figure out the matter that how and why questions related to bitcoin.

When describing bitcoin, we must first consider background of people who listen to us, there are two types of most common: workers and investors. Money laundering and level of price movements that don't significantly affect the workers, because they are looking for Bitcoin without capital. While investors always consider risks.

People who are accustomed to doing both would not worry about anything, because every opportunity is always put to good use without considering all possibilities.

How did you manage to get them to agree with your hypothesis? You might have given some arguments that other people can use as well.

In any case, keep us updated if you end up using this in your thesis project!

When I was on my highschool, I try to invite my several friends and introduce to them the bitcoin some says that a bullshit a fake a scam e scheme and I accept the fact that they are not open for that they are closed minded so I work for myself and they are surprise that I have an new and expensive stuff so I continue working. And in my college I try to invite again my new friends and they are interested to earn money it started with just a one and then now lot's of my friends want to learn bitcoin. I am happy because of that it is hard to introduced bitcoin to others if they are not open and if they really want to pursue it it is easy because they are eager to learn something.

I feel you bro. My friends are always laughing at me whenever I say to them that they could earn money by doing bitcoin, and they are always be like It is just a scam bro, don't fool yourself and my reply as always Okay. . I am sharing this idea to them because I also want them to earn money and have their own source of income, for them to be able to help their parents on the expenses on school, but they are not that easy to persuade because they are close-minded on stuff like this, and I am feel so sorry for them, because they might regret it in the near future.

If we are going to discuss the technicality behind the bitcoins technology then it is a very hard thing to do to common people who doesnt have a background on programming. It is much easier to just explain bitcoin as a money online that grows in value as time goes by. That way you dont need to go to the complicated details so as not to confuse your listener. Just tell them simple things and other details will come later.

Introducing bitcoin to other people is not hard because you can find all the things you need on the internet and you can simply go to different sites like youtube to watch a simple introduction and also here in bitcoin forum where they can create account and study bitcoin even better.

Telling other people about bitcoin is definitely not easy, we need to give them the whole information of it, we need to expain it furthermore , they didnt understand it because they cannot see it personnally,people only believe if they may be able to see it personally, they need to be thought very much before they put there interest and trust on it

Not any more since there is such forums and groups regrading bitcoin, hence other concerns and qestions can be answered by people who knows bitcoin. I just heard Bitcoin since october last year, now I know how it works and how it helps people in making effective businesses online. Also since Bitcoin is being introduced wether in social media or news, it would catch an attention to people who haven't know it and they may get informations about it.

I think not as easy as it dude. I do things like that when my friend asked about bitcoin, but the results are not satisfactory. He even asked me how bitcoin can make a profit, but unfortunately at that time I still do not fully understand and what the benefits bitcoin. People want more proof of the advantages of using bitcoin. And I think people do not want to lose money, they would like it if someone tried it first and make a profit. Then it is better if you use the internet and from the evidence that you have achieved profits from bitcoin.  Thank you

I believe it is now easy to introduce Bitcoin to others unlike before , what is the essence of bitcointalk? Just ask them to join this forum and read through the various sections and with time and dedication they will be able to comprehend all the details. No need to give them any long lecture.

As stated difficulty of introducing bitcoin to the new people has got easier with the availability of different websites that give lot of information about bitcoin. As a part YouTube videos were also making it easier to understand. Our forum is serving good to give required information to the new ones.

Actually that was the final defense. Panel didnt argue so much with it. I just show them how efficient it is to use during the demonstration. I did remove paypal as one my my payment processor and i have told them that this is much better apprently they all agreed

Good for you. It is not that hard to defend bitcoin since its involvement in your project is just a payment option. Those who know and use bitcoin can opt to pay thru bitcoin. Those who does mot can choose from other payment schemes.

Also, you spark interest to other students. That is good for bitcoin ecosystem.

Explaining bitcoin to someone is so hard, but try to tell them bitcoin is like a torrent where there is no server, all people host the torrent file.

Same with Bitcoin, our server our own devices if we install Bitcoin core as wallet and downloaded the blockchain we already hosting the whole world.

Introducing bitcoin is not that easy, because very few were aware of virtual currencies. At least if someone has heard of such a innovation then we can just guide them to different sources for easy understanding. In my view few films show bitcoin usage and people can be asked to watch it. This might make a small understanding which can be considered as the base.

I believe it is now easy to introduce Bitcoin to others unlike before , what is the essence of bitcointalk? Just ask them to join this forum and read through the various sections and with time and dedication they will be able to comprehend all the details. No need to give them any long lecture.
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Haha, I think your opinion is true as well. These forums provide good facilities for people who are just learning bitcoin course. Plus there are some sections of the local and where it will facilitate the beginners who learn about bitcoin for using their local language. Make their learning becomes easy, because not everyone can speak english. Unfortunately some people are often lazy and bored to read some of the posts there and they would prefer to create a new thread when the thread with the same discussion had been there before. Thank you

Actually that was the main purpose of this thing. Sharing the idea of the lower years students and trick their interest. I was glad to actually use it in ourplace bevause this is not so common

In my opinion, Yes i already experienced hard times in explaining or introducing bitcoin especially to those people who are close minded and always think that bitcoin is illegal and no one can make profit in using bitcoin. I made that experienced as a motivation for me to work harder in bitcoin and let my earnings change their perspective in thinking about bitcoin and now they are the ones who are keep coming to me and asking how to get started in bitcoin  8).