Watch this short clip
https://twitter.com/themikestilluk/status/1519344232544321538?s=21Question: ‘What is bitcoin?’
Him: ‘I’ve no idea. And actually I don’t want to know.’
Him: “Bitcoin stresses me and knowing more is gonna make me more stressful”.
So the question is,
Is bitcoin scary? Short answer to it may be “yes”.
I guess this is an average perception of a common man, this is the exact answer you will hear. They have so called “big questions” like who will manage it? And how? Although the answers are very simple, the whole idea of YOU makes them stressful.
For example:
YOU are responsible for your own “bitcoins”.
YOU should save your public/private keys “very securely”.
If YOU lose your keys, you lose everything.
There’s no support if you do anything wrong by mistake, there’s no Ctrl + Z.
Securing your keys, passwords, and passphrases is stressful.
In short these are some valid questions, and yes answers to each question are there, but people don’t want to take responsibility. These banks and governments had made us so lazy.
I still believe it’s just a matter of time, change has already begun.
You are not late, you are still early to bitcoin.
https://twitter.com/themikestilluk/status/1519344232544321538?s=21Just had exactly this experience today, talking to 2 (intelligent) Japanese girls in their end 20s in a Techno Club in Tokio.
They told me Bitcoin is freaky and dubious, and that it feels risky.
I explained that holding your keys without a middleman is a feature not a bug.
I think they understood somehow, but I saw in their eyes that it took them some quite some brain power to understand the idea of freedom and responsibility that comes with it.
People will understand it just takes time.
Edit:
At least, almost everyone has heard of Bitcoin until now
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