The general population is insanely ignorant about Bitcoin - and here's proof.

[chsados]

I started a thread on a relatively small gamers development forum asking them to consider accepting bitcoin purchases for their newest game I am really excited about.

It really opened my eyes how people will fight tooth and nail to just discredit Bitcoin, and most of these thoughts seem to be because of articles they had read by authors who do not understand bitcoin at all.

If you would like to see how the 100+ responses in under an hour unfolds check here

I am not asking anyone to register and chime in about why you would purchase a game with bitcoin, but if you would like to go for it!

Favorite line of them all:

Ever dollar you put into your paypal and such actually exists. You could put that paypal money into a bank account and withdraw real legal tender, that you could then take to the treasury and exchange for the gold that its backed by if you wish.

[P239]

of course they are ignorant/don't understand/are frightened of it.. it's new, it's 'techy' and it's radically different from anything we've ever had before.. what did you expect?
I remember when I tried to explain to someone about P2P music sharing back in 1998 or so.. he said something like:
...every cassette tape you put into your tape-deck actually exists. You could trade that cassette with someone and for an 8-track, that you could then take to the music-store and exchange for a vinyl album if you wish.  That p2p/digital music doesnt exist anywhere and could vanish instantly. It will never catch on...

[RoadToHell]

Favorite line of them all:

Ever dollar you put into your paypal and such actually exists. You could put that paypal money into a bank account and withdraw real legal tender, that you could then take to the treasury and exchange for the gold that its backed by if you wish.

Pretty funny that they think dollars are still backed by gold.  Or maybe it was a 105 year-old gamer that just forgot about FDR.

[vokain]

wots new

[PurpleTentacle]

Bitcoin is an artificial digital currency that is mainly used to buy porn on the internet. I'm not convinced it is much of anything beyond a complex moneylaundering scheme, but only time will tell.

Should have said drugs, would be more dramatic...

[vokain]

tr'rsts

[chsados]

Bitcoin is an artificial digital currency that is mainly used to buy porn on the internet. I'm not convinced it is much of anything beyond a complex moneylaundering scheme, but only time will tell.

Should have said drugs, would be more dramatic...

I know right, I never heard anyone identify bitcoin as a porn ecosystem.  Drugs yea, porn?

[vokain]

there is a GirlsGoneBitcoin subreddit accessible on the right on the /r/Bitcoin subreddit

[Spaceman_Spiff]

Honestly, who pays for porn these days...

On topic:  you are doing a fine job defending the use of bitcoin.
By the way, that Anubis guy really isn't stupid, quite to the contrary I would guess, he just hasn't read a lot about how money works yet, you might want to give him a break...

[PerfectAgent]

Favorite line of them all:

Ever dollar you put into your paypal and such actually exists. You could put that paypal money into a bank account and withdraw real legal tender, that you could then take to the treasury and exchange for the gold that its backed by if you wish.

Pretty funny that they think dollars are still backed by gold.  Or maybe it was a 105 year-old gamer that just forgot about FDR.

Oh you'd be surprised. The majority of people I know who I've talked to about this still think that the US is on the gold standard.

[Nicolai Larsen]

Well, some of them seemed to learn a great deal about Bitcoins (BitCoins lol) in that thread

[duquevalentino]

Honestly, who pays for porn these days... [2]

[vokain]

I was young and naive at one point too   thought everything I knew was right

oh well, everyone has to have this argument at one point with bitcoin lest they were to adopt it blindly

[PurpleTentacle]

These kind of drastic changes (like the changing of a fiat economy to a bitcoin economy) take a substantial amount of time to manifest themselves in a society (please correct my English). Here's an interesting excerpt from the Wikipedia entry about Paradigm Shifts:

When enough significant anomalies have accrued against a current paradigm, the scientific discipline is thrown into a state of crisis, according to Kuhn. During this crisis, new ideas, perhaps ones previously discarded, are tried. Eventually a new paradigm is formed, which gains its own new followers, and an intellectual "battle" takes place between the followers of the new paradigm and the hold-outs of the old paradigm. Again, for early 20th century physics, the transition between the Maxwellian electromagnetic worldview and the Einsteinian Relativistic worldview was neither instantaneous nor calm, and instead involved a protracted set of "attacks," both with empirical data as well as rhetorical or philosophical arguments, by both sides, with the Einsteinian theory winning out in the long-run. Again, the weighing of evidence and importance of new data was fit through the human sieve: some scientists found the simplicity of Einstein's equations to be most compelling, while some found them more complicated than the notion of Maxwell's aether which they banished. Some found Eddington's photographs of light bending around the sun to be compelling, while some questioned their accuracy and meaning. Sometimes the convincing force is just time itself and the human toll it takes, Kuhn said, using a quote from Max Planck: "a new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it."

[Cubic Earth]

Way to spread the word chsados.  I skimmed the thread.  Yep, it was painful.  The problem hardly seemed to be about bitcoin, but rather that those gamer people had not a clue what money is.  General financial ignorance, topped off with a healthy does of close-mindedness, and maybe even a small dash of stupidity.  I wouldn't be surprised if the average IQ of the bitcoin community is over 110.

I pulled this post off the tread so.  Yep... painful.

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So.. Bitcoin isn't real. It's generated via interwebz. Money you didn't work for.
{irrelevant ramblings removed}
Course, i just read about wtf Bitcoins are soooo... And from what i read, i sure as heck ain't using it. Rather buy things with money I've earned working.
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[escrow.ms]

Bitcoin is an artificial digital currency that is mainly used to buy porn on the internet. I'm not convinced it is much of anything beyond a complex moneylaundering scheme, but only time will tell.

lol

[Gabi]

If it was used to buy porn then now 1 bitcoin would be worth 10.000$ or more

[Torn]

After reading that forum thread I kind of want to go to the local high school and slap some teachers. How the hell are so many so ignorant of the basics about the world. Of course I know the answer before asking.. schools do not educate anymore, they are just baby sitting future welfare dependents that are expecting someone else to do all the thinking and work.

I average about 5 conversation's a day to people explaining BTC/LTC/ALTs etc. just as chsados did. 4/5 tend to nod and say they understand to a point but 1 usually gets scared or angry at me as if I'm trying to destroy mankind. Amazing ignorance in the world today. I'm not surprised considering how many people do not pay attention to history.

Okay, I'm off to the bank to trade my paper into gold! ( )

Be well.
T.

[vokain]

After reading that forum thread I kind of want to go to the local high school and slap some teachers. How the hell are so many so ignorant of the basics about the world. Of course I know the answer before asking.. schools do not educate anymore, they are just baby sitting future welfare dependents that are expecting someone else to do all the thinking and work.

I average about 5 conversation's a day to people explaining BTC/LTC/ALTs etc. just as chsados did. 4/5 tend to nod and say they understand to a point but 1 usually gets scared or angry at me as if I'm trying to destroy mankind. Amazing ignorance in the world today. I'm not surprised considering how many people do not pay attention to history.

Okay, I'm off to the bank to trade my paper into gold! ( )

Be well.
T.

physical? what bank in the US trades out gold?

[chsados]

After reading that forum thread I kind of want to go to the local high school and slap some teachers. How the hell are so many so ignorant of the basics about the world. Of course I know the answer before asking.. schools do not educate anymore, they are just baby sitting future welfare dependents that are expecting someone else to do all the thinking and work.

I average about 5 conversation's a day to people explaining BTC/LTC/ALTs etc. just as chsados did. 4/5 tend to nod and say they understand to a point but 1 usually gets scared or angry at me as if I'm trying to destroy mankind. Amazing ignorance in the world today. I'm not surprised considering how many people do not pay attention to history.

Okay, I'm off to the bank to trade my paper into gold! ( )

Be well.
T.

physical? what bank in the US trades out gold?

He is poking fun at one of the commentors in the thread that claims that dollars are backed buy the gold standard and one can trade them in for gold.  This was in response to me saying that bitcoin is just as "imaginary" as his dollars in his bank account and paypal.