Bitcoin Forum

So a couple of days ago, in a bloggers group on facebook; a guy asked what is bitcoin? And I was quite amazed to see that many people start commenting and saying stay away for bitcoin, its black currency, under world currency, or dark web currency and stuff like that.
Obviously the people who were saying this didn't know about bitcoin and have probably heard the same from someone else, but this is the perception of many around us.
What can be done to change this? Make BTC more user friendly? More appealing to general public?

Yes, there remains to be a great number of people even online who look at Bitcoin that way because that is what they have heard also from other people. Well, this is quite understandable as Bitcoin is very revolutionary something still new to many. Now...what should we do? I think I will just continue on holding to my Bitcoin and maybe do some trading with altcoins and soon Bitcoin can be really mainstream and we don't have to explain it to anyone. Now, I don't basically care what those others can be saying for or against Bitcoin because certainly those people are not affecting the rising value of Bitcoin.

very interesting! i thought this way of thinking died back in the early years like back in 2009-2010! and from what i hear from other people around me, none of them think this way.
they may not understand what bitcoin is or why it is rising but they surely don't think it is "black money!"

specially these days, i can say it is idiotic to think that when you hear a couple of governments in different parts of the world are calling bitcoin a legal method of payment!

p.s. what i mostly mean by "people around me" is people in real world. not online. online people say all kinds of crap, without thinking, mostly for trolling. the anonymity of internet helps them feel powerful enough to say anything!

Don't waste your time trying to convince people to join the bitcoin revolution, take it as a sign that you are a pioneer and take advantage of you being ahead of the pack to amass as much BTC as possible instead of trying to waste energy to convince people.

They will keep being on the denial phase until they are forced to understand the importance of bitcoin. Back then you couldn't convince people in 1990 about the internet, this is the same.

I have talked about bitcoin to my friends for years. Now that the price has continually been up they are interested. The only thing that changed their percerption really was the price. I did try to explain these things to them about how secure it is and how it will be the future of transactions and store of value.

Currently i got 2 really good friends into it and a relative. Last month none of them had any kind of coins. I pointed them to this forum to come read details.

The best thing I send people is videos on YT with Andreas explaining bitcoin. He does a good job.

The way we change perception is to keep pointing people to the videos and explaining the benefits. If the USA  only used btc they would have less desire to wage war for example. War is finances by taking out war debts and loans. When banks fund these loans they give the capacity for countries to wage endless wars because they keep getting financed. Through btc you could not have unlimited war loans because the btc runs out at a certain point and needs repaid.

The only thing that would grab their attention would be for successful legitimate businesses to share their stories. People like Patrick Byrne the

American entrepreneur and CEO of Overstock.com should write more about their successes with Bitcoin. People look up to successful people and

this is why successes should be shared. If your neighbour saw on television that some famous guy doubled or tripled their profit in Bitcoin, they

will take it seriously... but the media like to run with bad news and this is why people have perceptions like that... they only hear the bad news.

I think there is nothing to be done about bitcoin but bitcoin use cases. First of all Bitcoin should be projected and marketise well. Second if some more big companies start accepting bitcoin, people will start understanding it more and we who already into bitcoin should do our best to make people understand bitcoin and expand the community.

Globally bitcoin enlightenment is very slow I talked to people about bitcoin as a virtual currency but the general perception is that bitcoin is a scam. But I am trying to convinced them the more based on the bitcoin I earned through signature campaign.
I also convinced them that bitcoin earned can be used to offset some bills.

Whatever is not clear to anyone may not be well defined.
And those that defined bitcoin that way may be permitted since they have not drawn nearer to it. it their perspective as you have rightly said. you don't need to stress yourself about trying to convince them.

I remember people talking crap about bitcoin back in 2012 when I first got into it.  I'm glad I didn't listen to them.

At some point in the future, many of these people talking crap now will probably starting buying bitcoin, too.  Except they'll be buying small fractions of one, since they won't be able to afford a whole bitcoin.  And they'll be happy they did.

We have to do nothing, it´s just a matter of time. What is happening in Japan will happen in every country and every place in the world. There are more and more merchants, stores and companies accepting bitcoin everyday, you can even buy a plane ticket or book a hotel with bitcoin, soon people will be able to pay with bitcoin at the supermarket and they will see bitcoin is not a black currency or anything like that.

People are dumb enough said, if they don't do any research into the technology and just live in a world where they think its another Penny stock that's fine it just means that they will continue working and living on as plebeians in the cognizant wheels of societies lower rungs of labor.
(Or Paul Krugman whistle)

There are many reasons why you have witnessed seemingly overwhelming negative comments about Bitcoin - it can be explained by the population of users who visit that groups, some groups of people are more likely to hate Bitcoin while others (like anarcho-capitalists, for example) may almost universally love it. Also, people might be just reacting to the recent wave of ransomware attacks. Views are generally formed by media, and all the positive news about BTC are posted in economic sections, while bad news (ransomware, drugs, other crimes) are posted in general sections, so it's broadcasted to more people.

I am not surprised. There are some categories of people who are very quick to make assumptions without even the slightest idea what they are saying. It is a part of psychology that can't be ruled out. Human mind has the capability of perceiving all possibilities of an event and then narrowing it down to very few outcomes of which depending on our past experiences with somethings we conclude to one event.

BTC is already accepted by some countries. Soon enough these wrong perceptions about bitcoin will change on their own. We do not have to do anything special, just continue using bitcoin.

Someone who said that are only casual observer, he/she probably know bitcoin only from mainstream media when bitcoin appears in context of being used by ransomware cyber criminals and drug traffickers.
Newbies like that have no deep idea about what bitcoin really is, they can only repeat idiotic claims leaned from TV.

I remember that in mid 90. the internet was viewed as useless invention, used by nerds and geeks, now everyone is using it...

Even my father used to call bitcoin, just another ponzi few years ago but now he is one of the happy investor of bitcoin.  ;D

Some people may have misinformation while some like to be oversmart and are known for looking at just negative sides of everything. Those peoples may also change their mind when bitcoin will get more acceptance in multiple merchants all around the world. When they will see a local shop near by started to accept bitcoin payments than they may also see positive sides of bitcoin.

There is nothing better than a Bitcoin awareness drive.  Obviously people who are commenting about bitcoin in negative way does not really know what bitcoin is.  By creating an awareness campaign about bitcoin will tackle most misconception about this currency and correct them.

more exposure and more positive advertisement will let those people who still in denial to invest and join this venture, bitcoin really gather much attention with investors and trades as soon s many newcomers to come forward a lots of new good things will happen to this system.

I don't care and I don't want or need to convince anyone, hell with them, I can see and understand how valuable Bitcoin is and why would

I want to share this small cake with others?

Think about it, only 2 countries announced officially about Bitcoin and we're up %100 isn't it a reasonable thought not telling anyone about Bitcoin?

As more people will start using internet and will completely depend on it in the near future, I believe the masses will notice Bitcoin in their own time.

We should use these dark times to own more coins to become what early adopters are to us in the eyes of the future generations.

I think some (a lot) of people are hating on Bitcion for the reason that it's a way to make easy money. While they have dedicated their whole life to earn their money from their "slave jobs" they can't accept some nerds are making big profits easily. It's not jealousy , it's just disdain.

There are a lot of bitcoin paying services, we only need time for bitcoin to be accepted imo.

Every new beginning perceives with a negative trust. It must take a few more years before people will start to realize that era of fiat currency damnation is over. Nothing cant stop this process, we all want to live in a free world, pay less taxes, see our money value growing.

There are definitely some people like that, the people who just can't get the computer to work properly and so dismiss it because they are jealous at those computer nerds and can't buy Bitcoin anyways.
They will only see it as a real asset when it shows up in a stock account.

ignore them. We will be rich and they will not. They miss the chance to earn more money and miss the opportunity to have a new technology and make more profit.

Sadly this is the same for a lot of people as the only time people really here about bitcoin is when it is tied to crime.  I do see this changing, most recently bitcoin is getting more and more positive press and more adoption which will gradually change their opinion.

Totally agree with you. Though I feel too late in coming into bitcoin world, there are still people to whom I can compare myself as pioneer :D
But my point was not only how to convince them, but there must be a step taken by some powerful people or organizations to promote this technology to masses. Only then I feel the true purpose of bitcoin and cryptos can be achieved.

I also got the same response when I tried to explained bitcoin to my friends and my relatives, they said that bitcoin has caused a lot of cyber crime, and no explanation can made him to understand about the real usage of bitcoin

I think we need more positive news about bitcoin and for the bitcoin bad reputation I think it is caused by the media that keep on showing the bad side of bitcoin and never revealed any good side of bitcoin

Agree. Ignore them you cant earn a bitcoin from them if you convinced them. Well if they noticed or know what is the value of bitcoin now i could pretty say that they keep asking you to teach them on how to earn it and what to do. But now they dont have knowledge about it so they dont care about it. That is the most people reaction if they dont know the real value of bitcoin. If you do say 1 bitcoin to them sort of it is equivalent to $1 or less but its not!

Not just the good news about bitcoin that we need to show to people who judge reputation of bitcoin is not good, but with good facts about some bitcoin activity that we need to prove to them to erase bad impression on bitcoin.

i can easy tell you that does that refuse bitcoin and see criminal activity everywhere when you mention it don't hold any the other who are loving it are holding a few or many

it's always like that everyone who can't have something begin to hate it in the end, they can't afford to buy there fore they hate

i think they are intelligent enough to think that bitcoin is not related to criminal like it's for fiat, but it's the criminal that just use it for their dirty operations

I also include people who are annoyed with news about bitcoin-related crimes in various media, my whole family is asking this question and not a few of them are negative about bitcoin. I can only politely reply if bitcoin does not violate the law because the state never prohibits its use.

Always remember this, when people confront you with those type of statement >> Bad News, Sell Papers <<

The media and websites attract people with bad news, not good news. The only time something good is reported is when the Bitcoin price reach a record high. So the general public is bombarded with bad news and record high prices. This is something that they cannot understand, so their response will be defensive < eg. Bitcoin is a Ponzi & Bitcoin is mostly use for crime >

When people react like this, it is just a natural reaction based on fear of the unknown and blown up FUD being spread by the media. 

I think if negative news circulating about bitcoin alone does not eliminate reputation of bitcoin itself, because indirectly the popularity of bitcoin will increase and widely known to the public, because in general bad news will spread faster and interest of curiosity from the community than good news Sometimes get usual response

We dont need to convince them or to make their mind change. We will just continue to use bitcoin and when the time comes that all countries in the world will be accepting bitcoin they will regret not having bitcoin earlier while we enjoy the benefits and profit from bitcoin. In short we dont need to explain what is bitcoin to them but time will tell the story of what bitcoin is.

Bitcoin, though has alot of misconceptions from beginning, now many people are becoming aware of it as a really liquid assets and a great values. This time last year bitcoin is less than $600 but today bitcoin is more than one once of gold. People will readjust their perception on bitcoin immediately they discovered that they too can make fortunes from it.

But may affect the regulations or acceptance of government towards bitcoin but well it's fine, as long as the price keeps on increasing there's nothing to worry supposedly until further information from the local governments of whether they will accept or refuse, it'll then affect the price of bitcoin, only if the government is the one which rule developed country though.

Just let the bitcoin to get more popularities so it will be enough for them to shut their mouth up. Those people are keep saying that stay away from bitcoin because they didn't earn good profits or they didn't get bitcoins for a lower price so they are spreading negative thoughts so they will have a hope for the price to go down. We don't need them because someday they will come and reach to us and they will beg for our help to teach them on how to use bitcoin.

My knowledge of bitcoin is still low and so far nothing my negative things i get from BTC. May be just some of the people who make BTC as a tool for doing negative things.

Well, there's nothing we can do about these matter. We just need to wait and see what will be their reaction if a news came out and realizing they are wrong. Mostly, they say these things because they do not really know what bitcoin is, all they know is that bitcoin is used in such activities and they might distance their selves from it. We just need to ignore them, nothing will change even if they say something like that,we know the truth.

There are certainly a lot of misconceptions of bitcoin out there.

My parents still think that bitcoin is some sort of currency that is issued by someone that is a drug dealer that doesn't want to reveal himself in the world and all there is to bitcoin is buynig drugs, prostitutes, hitmen etc.

But I'd say that 90%+ of the economic activity going on the bitcoin network is totally legitimate.

We need more awareness of bitcoin, we need the public to actually have the heart to see what bitcoin is really about - to see someone refer to bitcoin as black money is just really disappointing.

I agree people should be educated about bitcoin and awareness campaign is the best way.  But the problem with this is that those who volunteer for this is not incentivised.  Probably big companies that join bitcoin economy can help a lot in this awareness campaign since they will be the first on to have benefits if people understand what bitcoin is.

It would be better to inform them the  advantage of bitcoin that it's using for legal matters and it can really help the community. Wayback last year, that's my perception in bitcoin yet it was altered as my friend encrourage me to do tradjng and I found it profitabl. I think if we can share them our way of making money in bitcoin, their mind set would be changed too.

There are still many people who don't know about bitcoin and the one who said bitcoin is black currency and it is a fraud, they don't even read a single line about bitcoin, they heard it from others and they thought bitcoin is fraud but they are wrong, if they start earning from bitcoin then they will say bitcoin is the best way to earn money :P

Seriously is it true that people think that bitcoin is a black money and has a dark future? Because if it is true than why bitcoin's price continuously high.
Also one thing is coming in my mind. If people think about bitcoin is a bad currency than it could be end when it came? Now in this time, bitcoin has been spend too any years with a good achievement. Than it mean don't care about the people what they think about the bitcoin, because for us bitcoin has a bright future and it give us profit than it is good for all of us.  

Personall I think we can't do much about that. There are different kinds of information about bitcoin, positive and negative, and people decide for themselves to which they want to listen. Times when bitcoin was getting mostly negative coverage in the meadia are over, so now it is up to an individual to what to believe.

Amm for this kind of perception you can't please everybody to believed on what is bitcoin and what bitcoins can do on people lives no one is experiencing bitcoin as a good example they obviously had bad experience using bitcoin from the internet nor they got scammed by someone who trying to believe them that investment money will worth to wait. In my country let just say 10% of people are using bitcoins and the others didn't know what the bitcoins yet and they believe that this coin is about the black market or darknet.

Bitcoin emang has a very amazing achievement for those who know it, bitcoin market has a good value and many people who understand bitcoin that will expand the community.

I don't guess scenario to be same in 2017. What you talking belongs to 2012-13 when people simply perceived Bitcoin to be illegal, then in next phase after big downfall (2014-15) people started considering it dead. But post 2016 period is boom period for Bitcoin.
I see several people in my city accepting personal payments in Bitcoin. The case which amazed me the most is of delivery man. He delivered TV from shop to my house and when I asked him about payment, he said I would like to receive payment in Bitcoin. He opened his mobile, I scanned QR code of his Zebpay wallet (Indian exchange wallet) and sent payment. It was all shocking for me that btc reached such boundaries!!

I am surprised to hear something like "stay away from bitcoin". Really don't know what could provoke such reaction, cause bitcoin is not banned and not admited illegal in any country yet. I think it is going to stay a mystery to me why those people commented so bad about bitcoin.

It will not stop. They talk like that as if fiat dont have a darker side. Actually it is the darkest of all currencies.
What else can be done to prevent this? Nothing. They will keep on using this and we wont know which it is that are doing the illegal stuff if the trade was made only with chat or something else.
They just send their coins same as how fiat is being send. As if they will put a note that it is for illegal drugs or arms and other illegal stuff.
The only way we have is to not join them.

Honestly,i don't really know what bitcoin is all about until such time someone encouraged me to join bitcoin.It was only in the forum that i come to understand what is really mean by bitcoin.

Do not want to blame anyone, but most people always think that way, maybe because they do not know exactly what bitcoin really is. Actually not only bitcoiin even fiat is used to bad thing too

Actually to save yourself of wasted time, I suggest to ignore those people who think Bitcoin is a black currency or whatnot. It's sad to say we can't really please everyone, so not all people are open about the thought of bitcoin.

It is possible for those people who is not educated about the true meaning of bitcoin to dislike it or to not promote bitcoin for others. Because in  reality bitcoin does have risk for those who not know it to well. And if you are new to the things like this it may be hard for you too cope up but if you want to learn more it is better to take time to read on forum like this so that you can be educated on the thing that is related to bitcoin, investment or even in trading. You can also join the speculation and join signature where you can earn while learning then make an investment by putting some capital to start on.

Let them handle it by there self and dont convince them if they dont wanted or they are not interested they just dont realize the what opportunities they are waste todays in bitcoin this is the currency that can be the future in the technology.

I think those people who say that didn't know what bitcoin is or they didn't believe on it. You don't need to problem that because that is there problem. The important is you know that bitcoin is real and how it works. Someday they will believe on it when they know it more and have some knowledge about bitcoin.

Most people who haven't heard about bitcoins, hears them for the first time either on news papers or the media. Now when do the media talk about bitcoins? Let me say it in a simple language: Mostly when something "bad" takes place and bitcoin is involved. We need to stop spreading the negativity and need to make people aware about the bright side of cryptocurrency.

I think you should dare to explain a little with words that are easier to understand so that not many people think bitcoin is a threat or something bad

I have come across a few people that are very angry with bitcoin but when I ask them of what are their knowledge about it they just don't have any comment regarding this, they are thinking that bitcoin is probably a dark web kind of strategy that I think many people are spreading a dark lies across the internet to simply perceive the mind of people who doesn't have a true knowledge towards bitcoin.

Bitcoin for me can give a changing lives of the others in the whole world. And aside from that, bitcoin is very open to anyone who will get interest to use it. And bitcoin was very appealing to those who are open minded in digital or virtual currency as well.

At first im really not conviced with this bitcoin thing but i do believe it before because my cousin told me what he does and how much he earns. He is really into signature campaign and sometimes gambling. Until reallt i decided to try it and yes im not thinking of stoping using it because it is very helpful and it is very handy. Thanking my cousin for letting me in.