The intelligence injustice of Bitcoin

[tvbcof]

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I mean this very seriously: World Peace and permanent environmental sustainability are both possible in a future when we teach our children to distinguish the Stuff That Matters from distraction bullshit.



Yours in compassion and solidarity,

World Citizen Beliathon

I wonder if you are one of those creepy Bahá’í Faith minions.  If not, you really should look into joining up.  Here's a conversation we've been having about them on another thread:

  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1012231.msg11752452#msg11752452

Actually, I still hold it open as a completely viable hypothesis that you are 100% poser trying to make a point about what freaks some people really are by pretending to be one.

[Kprawn]

When it comes down to money, people are smarter than you might think they are. I visit Africa regularly and they use M-pesa as a payment method via mobile phones.

I have seen people living in the poorest countries in Africa, using this technology to buy and trade for goods. Some people in the western developing countries, see these people living in situations like these, and they might think they are dumb or intellectually challenged.

Those people need to get a wake up call... If you are unemployed or if you are poor, you are not neccesarily intellectually challenged.

I have seen some of the most intellegent people in Africa, who did not have the money or opportunity to study at Havard, but they are just unemployed due to their environment and background.

People will figure it out, just give them access to the information.     

[d4n13]

There is an easy-ish answer, although totally illegal in US because of currency laws.

1) Pick a spot price for USD/BTC (lets say 270).
2) Print paper wallets in denominations of $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100
3) Deposit mBTC into the wallets ($1 = 3.703 mBtc ... $100 = 370.37 mBtc)
4) Use your new paper wallets as currency.

Cavet: If anyone swipes key on the bill, it is "blanked" and now worthless paper.

[ThEmporium]

For example, someone really smart might be born into a situation with tough chances of being financially successful.

True man, there are lot of people born intelligent but they are raised in such situation that they could not able to become financially successful, everyone need sort of favorable destiny by their side, being said that, it's not meant that someone let loose the intellectual thinking in their life, win or loose hope is the only choice to keep moving life.

[Beliathon]

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I mean this very seriously: World Peace and permanent environmental sustainability are both possible in a future when we teach our children to distinguish the Stuff That Matters from distraction bullshit.

Yours in compassion and solidarity,

World Citizen Beliathon

I wonder if you are one of those creepy Bahá’í Faith minions.  

I'm a minion of Science and humble servant of Truth, nothing more. Everything I have written on these forums is sincere. No one cares what you think of it.

[pooya87]

i agree that the whole bitcoin concept is hard for some people to understand. but using bitcoin doesn't need that much of an understanding.
as long as someone can use a smartphone, or a computer, and internet using bitcoin doesn't need any more understanding.
but the fact that there is not enough usage for bitcoin makes people not wanna understand the whole thing.

[BillyBobZorton]

Harder to link bank accounts & cards to PayPal than to use BTC.
Harder to set up an email account than to use BTC.

This. The main problem is basically that people don't even know what Bitcoin is, and a lot of "non geeks" that have heard it decide to ignore it.
Just like in the early internet days, it is simply unavoidable that the ones that come first will benefit the most, this is a basic law of life that happens everytime. By the time Bitcoin is as mainstream as 2015 internet, all those that ignored it will weep.

[HCLivess]

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You're here? What a legend

[gentlemand]

This. The main problem is basically that people don't even know what Bitcoin is, and a lot of "non geeks" that have heard it decide to ignore it.
Just like in the early internet days, it is simply unavoidable that the ones that come first will benefit the most, this is a basic law of life that happens everytime. By the time Bitcoin is as mainstream as 2015 internet, all those that ignored it will weep.

Aye. I think people often willfully choose to be stupid.

Grandmas who constantly bemoan being unable to operate a DVD player would be perfectly capable of doing so after three minutes of applied concentration. If you can survive for 80 years without starving to death by forgetting to eat, you can also learn what pressing a couple of buttons does.