What's your biggest problem with Bitcoin

[bitcollins85]

For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

[Amph]

For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

there's a lot of details left in your post

If you are using core, a newbie doesn't know he has to use a single different address each time if he wants privacy, doesnt know that he may need to mix coins and control his coin output to not mix your own coins for added privacy, doesnt know he needs a wallet.dat everytime he generates a new receiving address... and the list goes on.

[oxiyusuf]

For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

there's a lot of details left in your post

If you are using core, a newbie doesn't know he has to use a single different address each time if he wants privacy, doesnt know that he may need to mix coins and control his coin output to not mix your own coins for added privacy, doesnt know he needs a wallet.dat everytime he generates a new receiving address... and the list goes on.

maybe everything does look complicated and difficult to understand, but this is done to secure coin memeng owned.

[Amph]

For bitcoin to be used by average joe, it needs to be as simple as email ,facebook etc. stop confusing people with technical terms like private keys, multisig etc

but it is simple, they only need to know that an address is like an iban of your credit card or debit card, and on top of that you need to make a copy of your wallet.dat, all the other fancy stuff, like trezor, lightwallet, paper wallet ecc.., are just annoying things that distract

one thing that should be added to help newbies, is the thing about the 100 address of the mempool, basically after 100 address if you do not save your wallet(if you recieve income), you can lose bitcoin, the client should warn you that you are near the critical amount

there's a lot of details left in your post

If you are using core, a newbie doesn't know he has to use a single different address each time if he wants privacy, doesnt know that he may need to mix coins and control his coin output to not mix your own coins for added privacy, doesnt know he needs a wallet.dat everytime he generates a new receiving address... and the list goes on.

newbie do not search for anonimity, if they still prefer to use their credit card, i think you can leave this behind, and it does not need a wallet.dat for every new address, this is a BS, you can just generate as many address as you want with one wallet.dat only

[Jeremycoin]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

[ransomer]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

I have no doubt this is the biggest issue with bitcoin.

Except for people looking at it from the outside who never actually owned bitcoin. They may see the volatile prices or lack of backing etc. But the actual real main concern is the security issue.

[pooya87]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

why don't you use an SPV (light) wallet.

you can use something like Electrum, it is easy to use and you don't need a huge Hard drive space or bandwidth. it would be less that 40 MB in total size because it only downloads block headers.

and as for security you can create an offline wallet with Electrum and only send the signed transactions on an online computer.

all of these works that you need to do have good step by step walk-throughs and you can ask any additional question that you might have here.

[Solange]

The biggest issue is the volatility and I think that's what scares a lot of people off, but at the same time its that volatility that is very attractive to speculators and thus the potential for profit. For the average user who may wish to use it as a currency though it can be scary for them.

This is what I thought for the first time Im doing trading bitcoin, I scare about the volatility but at last I think without any volatility I dont think I can get good profit. With this volatility we can earn every time and get much profit from it

But the opposite is also true. You can lose a lot of money and profit not at all. Trading or investments always carry risks and are not always profitable.

[oxiyusuf]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

why don't you use an SPV (light) wallet.

you can use something like Electrum, it is easy to use and you don't need a huge Hard drive space or bandwidth. it would be less that 40 MB in total size because it only downloads block headers.

and as for security you can create an offline wallet with Electrum and only send the signed transactions on an online computer.

all of these works that you need to do have good step by step walk-throughs and you can ask any additional question that you might have here.

even if you are already using any security, make sure you do not carelessly visit wallet phishing sites, or sites that contained the virus, make sure your antivirus is always updated

[Netnox]

Very poor advertising, majority of btc promotion is in the crypto circle, outside that its awful.

[Jeremycoin]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

why don't you use an SPV (light) wallet.

you can use something like Electrum, it is easy to use and you don't need a huge Hard drive space or bandwidth. it would be less that 40 MB in total size because it only downloads block headers.

and as for security you can create an offline wallet with Electrum and only send the signed transactions on an online computer.

all of these works that you need to do have good step by step walk-throughs and you can ask any additional question that you might have here.

even if you are already using any security, make sure you do not carelessly visit wallet phishing sites, or sites that contained the virus, make sure your antivirus is always updated

and make sure you use a genuine antivirus
btw, do you guys think that Bitcoin would be more secure in the future? or even vice versa?

[randy8777]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

I have no doubt this is the biggest issue with bitcoin.

Except for people looking at it from the outside who never actually owned bitcoin. They may see the volatile prices or lack of backing etc. But the actual real main concern is the security issue.

it's not the biggest issue at this moment, but with the increasing blockchain size it will be much harder for people to make space for it on their hdd in the future.

[Evil Steve]

My biggest problem with Bitcoin is, I don't know where the easiest and the safest place to keep it.
I want to use the Bitcoin core, but my PC couldn't handle it. So I use an online wallet, but I don't know if it's safe enough.

Keep it offline. Why do you need it on your computer? Plenty of liteweight wallets as well.

[lorylore]

Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.

[Jeremycoin]

Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.

You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = More secure
 

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse.

[lorylore]

Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.

You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = more secure
 

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse.

Lol, let's make this ideal. Faster transaction = More secure, isn't it possible?
Check other coins and you will see

[Jeremycoin]

Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.

You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = more secure
 

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse.

Lol, let's make this ideal. Faster transaction = More secure, isn't it possible?
Check other coins and you will see

I'm not actually really understand about other coins, but these was the Biggest problem of all time.

[Amph]

Biggest problem with bitcoin is the time.
It takes hours to confirm a transaction so it can be better like other coins to process faster.

You have the opposite of my problem
[IMO]
Faster transaction = Less secure
Slower transaction = More secure
 

I'm wondering, how to solve this problem without making any problem even worse.

you simply do not solve it, because it isn't a problem, merchants should just go ahead and accept 0 confirmations

but if you really want a solution sidechain are what you are looking for

[BTCevo]

The biggest issue is the volatility and I think that's what scares a lot of people off, but at the same time its that volatility that is very attractive to speculators and thus the potential for profit. For the average user who may wish to use it as a currency though it can be scary for them.

This is what I thought for the first time Im doing trading bitcoin, I scare about the volatility but at last I think without any volatility I dont think I can get good profit. With this volatility we can earn every time and get much profit from it

But the opposite is also true. You can lose a lot of money and profit not at all. Trading or investments always carry risks and are not always profitable.

Nope if you know how to maintain your trading and try to see the situation too, I think you can minimalize your loss when you really have that bad luck