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To see bitcoin on 1 million dollar or Ethereum to 10000 dollar, we must all understand that it takes mass adoption to get on that point.
And mass adoption begins from home, so how do you educate your friends and family about crypto?

Do share so we can all learn from each other's method   :)

It seems to me that it is impossible to impose any opinion about cryptocurrency on others. You can tell them about the advantages of using cryptocurrencies and what they are, but the choice is yours.

This is an exciting moment when we finally see bitcoin hits $1,000,000 or ETH @ $10,000 or $100,000.
Not educating them anymore, I only answer if someone asks me. I don't want to be disappointed of what happened to me of educating my friends about crypto before.
About my family, they already knew about bitcoin but they aren't interested.

There’s no need to educate anyone; let them all ask the questions the best you can do is teach the basics and understand the concepts of the basic too

Don’t be responsible for anyone’s crypto currency education

Its always been good to share up to anyone on whats crypto and its benefits either on payment new way system at the same time the money making opportunity that it gives. I have tested out this stuff where I do start on the family members but it turns out that most of them isn't really interested at all that's why I decide to keep it on my own rather than forcing them up to engage if they do really don't have interest then so be it.

I know some ICO courses, they're really helpful. They're on udemy

I will teach them by showing the price, the process and the earning system from the crypto. It is not easy to bring some noncoiner into the crypto market. If bitcoin price hit again 20K USD, then I can ensure that many noncoiner will come here easily. But if bitcoin starts falling again, then that noncoiner can leave the crypto field. I brought 5 people in the crypto industry but now I am fed up. That's why I will not bring , rather I will spread the good news about crypto in my social media, then, if someone asks me about crypto, I will teach them.

Whenever I am in the midst of those that are not into cryptocurrency, I do sensitize them about the fact that blockchain is a technology and it has come to stay, unlike the ponzi scheme that came around and died unexpectedly.

Hi good day I educate my friend by doing a simple task for them 1st I put him to a challenge if my friend reach the Jr. member I will guide him how to bounty create some blog and article after that I tech him to Airdrop in Telegram then, after all his effort  he can earn a stake and token, Then I tech him to find some Exchange his token so that he don't need me any more if he know the trading system.

There are clear problems with centralization, talk about past heists the government done versus the tax payers, steal their savings and gold and how bitcoin prevents this. Tell them to just put 1-2% in BTC as an insurance vs financial erosion and unpredictable events or rouge governments.

Let them watch this 1-2% grow and it also gives a reason to learn more. even if they just have 100 dollar, put 1 in BTC :)


Talk about how our funds are traceable and how hard it is to bid on objects without others knowing your limits of funding, or about the benefits of having untraceable transactions and unknown balances, introduce the privacy coins. It is the way to regain power over our finances and not be subject to inflation and war mongers... Monetary democracy is needed, the banks buy laws, made to make them richer, nothing can stop it other then a new system that gives us the chance to turn our backs to banks and fiat :)


Never talk about it as a fast ROI investment, or make promises just air the philosophy i mentioned and how it is technically possible to enforce. Never give up!

You educate them by making them realize the importance of blockchain technology and how cryptocurrency comes into play . You need to make them understand the current challenges with the traditional models across different sectors and how Blockchain and cryptocurrency can help to address those challenges .

Just only try to tell em all a little bit about that and try to tell them all of the things make them will be feeling curious about that and they will try to spend their time to search the more important thing regarding it and that's only all of the step that i can do.

Educating people who don't know about cryptocurrency are by explaining about the multiple contributions of cryptocurrency to human lifes, on how the way cryptocurrency also helps those people become rich by working full time on this business. However I will also explain those opposite bad things on this business in order to aware those people interested to join cryptocurrency business job.

its hard to explain about crypto to noncoiner,,
because most of them will ask about the legality of cryptocurrency, so, i decided to quiet when somebody ask about this,,
but, sometimes i will answer if cryptocurrecny is a digital assets

I see, perhaps being militant is not the best course of action, but still we should try to explain to them the pros and cons first (I wonder what's the cons when mass adoption eventually occurs?)

I usually tell them what is bitcoin first rather than explaining noncoiner about crypto because some of the people knew slightly about what is bitcoin. So I can tell them more easily by that.

That works mostly to younger generations apparently as they are the curious ones, how about older generations :-\

Good day. I sometimes post trade earnings on my social media accounts so that catches attention and many gets curious and asks how its done. But only a few believes in cryptocurrency, even those you know personally. I answer some but ignore others who asks too much and doest even make an effort to do some research. I point them to research on Google or tell them to join on crypto related Facebook groups. Teaching is not easy.

you can't force them, that's the rule:) yesterday i asked my father why he isn't investing into crypto and got very annoyed reply that it's all nonsense. older generation...

I am trying to educate my friends about crypto daily. You can interest them by some interesting examples of how crypto will change our life and cut some expenses like taxes

So this is really the case, but people do not trust the rumors when it comes to money is the best advertisement, I think when the crypto will be advertised on the TV then its perception will be much more!

Well, to encourage new people to come into this market I try to convince them on how fast the crypto market is growing. I tell them how benefited I am and earned much from here. Besides, to educate them I share all my experiences and problems I faced while I was a newbie. With this simple steps I have managed to convince a number of people into this market and more are to come hopefully.   

You have to be careful when inviting nocoiners onto that playground. The risks are high and surely have to be told before any investments are made (or you might turn your friend into your nemesis ;D).

Tell them the benefits crypto could bring to some of the everyday areas we have today and how high risks with crypto can really pay out.

Interesting question, I don't have a particular way or at least didn't find it yet as I had no time to research it. I have however found out that older people (like 40-60) still refuse to hear anything about cryptocurrencies even if I try to explain how revolutionary it really is. But they will get around, I think.

Mostly when I am trying to educated the people who are not in cryptos, I first try to explain to them what cryptos are and their uses. You see a good number of people have been told that cryptos are scam so you first have to break down that belief or anything you tell them will fall on deaf ears. After that, I then tell them about how they can make money from investing in cryptos.

What I actually do is, I try to tell them about the benefits and positive aspects of dealing with cryptocurrency. I try to make them understand how this market is different and more potential than usual one. Some of my friends has already joined crypto being inspired by me.

You can influence peoples to invest on this crypto market and also can tell them the advantages of this market and how peoples are earning from this market. But decision is yours.

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As you can see, bitcoin and crypto in general is very complex for average persons. To be honest, I don't have the time to educate my family in crypto. I have educated my one cousin but he is not an average person. He is intelligent but not too much and now he knows a lot about crypto.

If we spend our time explaining crypto into other people, maybe they will be overwhelmed and in the end they will not continue to learn it. This is one of the problem I think why mass adoption takes too long to happen.

The basic knowledge I have can be shared with them. Besides, there are a lot of videos are there in the internet which talks about providing knowledge of crypo crrency. People can easily get to know through this.

You might wanna start by visiting the mining section of this forum Alula, or you can always opens a new thread for a specific question regarding mining.

All the knowledge is available on the internet, so they have to learn by themselves. If I teach them, it will not be as effective as tutorials, videos, blogs on Internet. And I will advise them to access to this forum: bitcointalk.

For me I have a pattern I use to educate anyone who is a newbie into crypto currency, what i normally do is that i use stock exchange to give them good example, every country has stock exchanges, where stocks are been traded and some company do their IPO then I use the same pattern and examine cryptos to them and they normally understand it.

If anyone is interested and ask me about crypto world than I always told him about the advantages and disadvantages of crypto. If they seems interested than I told them broadly about it otherwise just give them a hint about it.

You cannot really imposed to everyone what you have understand specially to non-millennial people. They are more skeptical in terms of finance, understanding and investing. When they can learn crypto, by it's nature and volatility, most of them had to decide right away not to invest in that kind of shady investment. Mass adoption will commence in the hands of the millennial and not in older one so we cannot really expect that mass adoption will takes place in this decade. Maybe 20 years from now.

For educating people about cryptocurrency, I prefer to present all aspects of it. Cryptocurrency is a digital coin that runs on decentralized system. No central government can control this. Through cryptocurrency, transactions can be done within seconds. We can also on a lot by investing on cryptocurrency.

I teached my family what is crypto and the basic notations and functionality of a blockchain.. it's not easy at first time but if they are curious then it will be easier.

I have a 6-year old and an 11-year old sons. At this early age I'm telling & teaching them what is bitcoin, altcoins and how does it works. Sometimes when I do mining or faucets, I teach them to do it themselves while I'm away. And when I am at work, I am telling my co-employees also about bitcoin how to earn it without buying. Now he currently joins bounty campaigns, do mining and faucets.

I don't think most people want educated.  You have to plant sees and let them realize it for themselves.  It's very hard to find an open person you can put knowledge on and they accept.  99% of the time your education to them goes into the whatever bin.

No need to educate people since this will happen automaticaly as soon as people notice that cryptocurrency is getting famous and profitable. There is no sense in explaining cryptocurrency to your friends and family because they will not get it right away. To learn about cryptocurrency, you must be willing to learn, I my self did not listen to my brother when he explained about crypto. I learned by my sepf when I noticed that cryptocurrency is real.

I just share about my experience in crypto and tell my friends about the merits and demerits of the crypto currency. Through this way I educate my friends but I do not impose any opinion on them.

In my opinion, it can be sometimes extremely hard to educate a noncoiner about crypto. Principally, I never try to improve a person's knowledge on crypto, if I don't see a good learning potential on this person.

The way I have educated my friends about crypto is that I use my county stock exchange to give them example how cryptos works because cryptos is similar to stock exchange only that in stock exchange, you do IPO and in cryptos you do ICO, at the end of the day all of them will end up been in the market.

There are a lot of online short and crash courses which are being offered for the people who are not completely aware of the market's processes and drills. Apart from that, the internet is filled with information on this issue.

Its nearly impossible to make someone buy something by force, rather enlightening them with the hype and news of rapid growth of the crypto market seems like a good way to aware people who may want to invest later on.

It is really hard to make someone understand who doesn't want to know or doesn't have the basic ideas of crypto. So it is better to make them interested by telling them the fascinating facts about cryptos..

The only way is to get them interested in the first place and the easiest way to do that is to show them your success as a crypto investor. They will be the ones asking questions on how to join in

Instances would differ on each person because we do have different family members or relatives which either they are tech-savvy or not which they do either understand or not when you tried out to explain.I would say it would really be worth to try even we do know if outcome would be positive or negative on their side but atleast we do help up about adoption even just starting on our own home.
Its hard to explain completely on a person which do have zero knowledge about internet things but learning up crypto isn't really hard.

I'm not a good teacher, but a good student. I try to explain to my friends about blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, but at the moment they consider it a financial pyramid and are skeptical about my interest in this area. Even when I showed them my earnings from cryptocurrencies trading, they do not trust it.

It is nice that you are going to study about the crypto technologies I think that you have already known that the crypto technologies are the soon future. I can tell you about myself how I studied about the crypto technologies. First of all I began watching web podcasts describing essentials in this field and after that I began reading more serious articles describing any important details and eventually I registered on this forum and became reading the latest news, interesting projects and smart ideas from other participants. You can ask any questions on this forum and other participants will probably help you to figure out.

Simply you can educate them by telling them the advantages of cryptocurrencies and the block chain technology. If you can tell them that with proper way I think they will get things on their own then by searching and doing research on the internet.

I share post on facebook as well as twitter, I entertain them when needed but seems that others are not interested I wont force them to invest nor educate them about the future of blockchain.

it's important to have some forward thinking and attitude towards innovation to understand what crypto can become. It seems to me that many people on the contrary have conservative views and therefore they see only the cons and dangers related to crypto. it is unlikely that you can overcome such mind-set in most people.

It seems like here, I personally not like to force teach people around me especially my family because I know cryptocurrency is a very high volatile currency that they might be lost due to lack of knowledge but there are some that willing to learn and interested that people mostly I taught. Because if you forcing them to invest if they have a failure you are the one who can blame them.

The best method of persuading anyone about crypto is showing your own example.
For instance, you can say something like "recently I've invested $500 and gained $1,000 profit, so why couldn't you do the same?".

my best way to educate no coins with crypto is to show them coinmarketcap and ccn.com these two websites can educate them

Well i am lucky in that all of my family think positively about crypto but as far
as friends and acquaintances go for explaining about crypto I always start
at the start - bitcoin and how it came about and for what reason.

The key is to use simple language and avoid to whole "get rich quick" idea.
It can almost be like guiding a blind person through a street full of people
Nice and steady trying not to make a dfastic move.

No one needs to be forced by force to learn crypto-currencies. Another thing, you must warn your friends that you can not only earn money, but you can lose all your investments.

It is normal that family is curious what You are doing and we have to involve them, to make Crypto familiar to them. I have some stories from real life I am explaining to  them what is blockchain, how it works etc. In fact it is fun to see that during family meetings we speaks a lot about Crypto. Even those over 80 are familiar  with it , but it was a long way to achieve this.

Well initially, you have to educate yourself first. I'm pretty sure that a huge number of us in this system does not have a full understanding of what they have gotten into. But learning does come along the way. And the only time you should start educating others is when you have personally gained something or have had your experiences on how the system works. But please don't force yourself to go educating people because you want to. This is not practical. This may only cause you stress and frustration. Only inform people when they ask. Only go deeper if they keep on asking more. This way you'll know they are interested.

The fact is we shouldn’t teach about crypto. I mean we can just inform them about and the rest of the thing should be learned by self-learning. That’s why I believe that researching by own is the best thing here.

Crypto world is confusing. It is not wise to learn from others. It’s better to learn by own. Doing a good amount of research will help to understand the crypto world. But there is no alternative ways.

I believe the best way to educate noncoiner about crypto is to tell them of the advantages of crypto and what they tend to gain from it if they join the community but you should also tell them it is risky and they need to be very patient in the crypto community.

I see, hopefully with the whole cryptoverse stabilizing now we can see more and more people begin to curious once more about crypto without fear of getting slammed like early this year.

I agree, adoption starts from home :)

There’s no need to educate anyone about cryptocurrency because it is much better to educate themselves and to convinced themselves on how important cryptos are. I started here when my cousin introduced it to me with only few guidelines then am on my own after that.

Introducing crypto to everyone is not as easy as imagined, It is necessary patience to convey the term crypto because there is no guidebook and can only be found in google.

Something worth doing is not always easy. In our project crowdfarmx, we are going to educate farmers about blockchain. Its not easy, but its worth it ;)

In my opinion, it is really hard to educate and convince a people if they themselves are not interested in to cryptocurrency. However, I started to encourage my daughter to join with me in my quest to earn profit through signature bounty campaign and told her that once she will be able to earn, she can use such profit for her personal use. Right now, she is actively participating in signature bounty campaign and almost near to end the campaign period. She just wanted to try and take her chance just to know if if is a real thing.

It's heartwarming to see crypto as a family activity :D and good for your daughter as well for being an early user of crypto. May her journey ahead is all greens and no reds :)

Regarding the statement what I will say is let them watch, see, feel and come to light. They may understand to know the importance of learning BTC studies and about crypto space , then they may know about BTC as they will know with wants and importance, rather if not they will hear your advises and throw them in the dump of their brains. First they have to make them interested, or you may try. Maqke them interested, they will know.

I think the best way to educate anyone about cryptos is by been successful in the cryptos, once you are successful other people will like to follow you and join, I got into cryptos because my friend in crypto is rich through cryptos

Before educting someone, be sure that the recepient of your idea is an open-minded person. If otherwise, now just stop your plan in telling him/her about crypto. It is important that the person you are talking with shows interest on it.
Then start explaining bitcoin, altcoin and the ways you can earn from it. If you can, show some of your earnings and tell them how exactly you have made that amount.

I let them see it themselves how bitcoin change my life and status so they were be the one to ask me how did i do that and from there the messages spread from my family members and connecting friends

As of today most of my family members invested in crypto though some are small holders but atleast they ate starting to adapt and spreading the message

So easy, I will guide them go to search on Google ;D. Of course, I can spend my time to explain the questions about cryptocurrency after they have a basic knowledge from Google. But, I can't spend my time to teach the newbie never spend some days to learn the basic knowledge about cryptocurrency before want to me teach them.

I'm just thinking that it's worth keeping a mouth shut if everyone knows that I have cryptocurrency, and when bitcoin will costs $1,000,000 I think my whole family will be in great danger.

I simply tell them that crypto is a new form of tech that has multiple use cases, it can be trasferred as a payment globally, it is decentralized, borderless and efficient moreover it is backed by blockchain and is categorized as an asset so it has attractive investment perspective as well.

Exactly, talking to closed minded person will only leads to argument.

I'm sure crypto has change your life already, you must've been here for a long time to be hero member.

Nice to know your family members also a hodler :) must be an open minded family you got there.

Well perhaps its only a matter of time until CNBC's fast money advertising ICO  ;)

People tend to ask for some proofs about a certain investment or business and that includes cryptocurrency, the Local news here in my country always forecast bitcoin investment scam, frauds, and its risk without any justified explanation as to what the hell is Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain, when people knew I was into bitcoin they will always say it is a scam its all over the news, educate them with the basic and simple explanation about it the best way is to show them some proofs or success.

That's an excellent steps actually, no need to spend anything but time. Quite appealing for younger generations.

I don’t educate people about crypto. I normally share the benefits and risks about crypto with people whom I think will be interested in crypto. In the end, it is up to them whether you want to get involved or not.

i educated my friend about trading crypto, most of them like trading and get profit from it
that's the way to get new community in crypto space, if many ppl join crypto can affect in price

I have a simple example. When you go to the casino, you have to exchange your money for the chips to bet. They don't use cash in casino. You can use money to exchange the chips and also can use the chips to redeem for money. If you bring the chip home, it will have no value.
Similarly, there will be a community that accepting to use crypto for trading, you can use money to exchange to crypto and also can use crypto to exchange to money. The price of crypto will depend on the number of people that use it for trading

Just be natural and talk to your family and friends when the time is right. I guess the most important thing to mention is the risks involved. You do not want them to come after you everytime Bitcoin price drop by a couple of hundred dollars.

Yeah, that's whats happen to people who advice their grandma to buy bitcoin at 20k  ::)

This one is now simple, I just show them my wallet or my transaction history and that's settles it, no one would say he doesn't want money, all they may be concerned about is the guarantee in the investment but we all know there is no guarantee anywhere, life itself is not even guaranteed for anyone

I would direct them to Bitcointalk and get some exposure. Read up on specific posts about bitcoins. Show them the trends of bitcoin and the risks involved in it. Teach them how a wallet works and how to buy crypto. By this point they might not be interested anymore so that's good. But if they are interested and buy bitcoins, tell them to be patient everytime the price drops and not be panic sellers.

It is not like I talk about the subject to everyone I met with, but once the conversation starts I definitely try to give my point of view of the little things I've been learning and the mistakes I made, and I think everyone should do it like that, just my opinion though.

Exactly, I couldn't say it any better myself :D

Any specific bitcointalk thread that you show people to expose them to crypto?

I don't really educate people about bitcoin because I know to myself that I still also need to know and research more about cypto. What I can do is to just give them background on how I earned from crypto.

i think it is hard to since much people defence from technology changes.they think crypto very dangerous and can make them poor if investing on it.giving them any literature or articles about blockchain technology will help them to understand.

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if there is someone who wants to learn about crypto, i dont actually tell them about it, I always say that do some research, its easy and would be better for them to understand about it, since a lot of information is publicly posted in the internet about crypto

If the family is not interested in cryptocurrency, it makes no sense to teach them. Especially while the cryptocurrency has not penetrated into our lives and a large number of people do not use it. If someone wants to, he himself turn to you with questions.

It is difficult to begin teaching some one about cryptos.

The best thing to do is show the person you are educating exactly what you are talking about. Describe to them the concepts of what a blockchain is, how it is beneficial to the world, what they are capable of. There are organizations, like HyperionX, that are looking to integrate the average tech-user into the blockchain network. It is imperative that people understand the technology behind cryptocurrencies before investing or utilizing them. Blockchain will be the next big wave of tech that goes mainstream, which is why we should all begin to educate our friends and family on blockchain tech and cryptos.

Start small and slowly guide them through the intricate world of blockchain.

Sincerely speaking this have been a tough task to accomplished, because at first he or she won't understand what you are saying you will have to break it down piece by piece for him or her to understand. And this requires lots of patience.

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I think there is no more effective way than letting them know that we can succeed with crypto. And for the first step of course we have to succeed first, and after that maybe whatever we say about the crypto concept will be heard by people around us.

Show your profit, that's the best way to motivate others! Personally, I've got here cause I saw my friends making money and started to learn the philosophy of the cryptocurrency market!

For those days I thought it was too far away, we should think for the future. I look forward to this market further development.

Bitcoin for $ 1 million, and Ethereum for $ 10,000, is too fantastic, and optimistic (although in the distant future, it's possible). People need to be shown the benefits of blockchain technology.

You do not have to do it. However, the guy will be thankful for you if you prompt him which of the books on the cryptocurrency he can read, and which of the videos on YouTube contain the best information.

I think its a hard task to do especially in my country. Maybe i will teach some of my friends and college student. I will tell them about the basic of cryptocurrency and i hope they understand. Cryptocurrency is a future i hope people can understand how good cryptocurrency is.

I'd refer them to some general info forums and videos kind of "for dummies" (lovingly). There are plenty of videos on YouTube not going into details of trading tricks. You can show them some videos.

I just sent links to some videos on YouTube, some good easy to understand videos, to my friends and family, and each time they are mistaken, I correct them and tell them more of facts to correct the rumors they keep hearing.

Also a very good approach. We can't make people understand. We can only steer them in the right direction. I can't say I myself know enough to educate so I just tell them where to look and what sources are the best.