I stand in agreement with Lucius on this one. Even for adults, that's a difficult thing to convince, let alone when that person has a parent who needs conviction beforehand. I can imagine most of the parents hearing "bitcoin" and depicting this as the "bad darkweb money" or as a bubbled-stock.
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Most parents behave protectively towards their children, and I have already written that the mainstream media mostly write and speak negatively about Bitcoin, although often without any basis, considering that Bitcoin has nothing to do with Bankman, Kwon or that scammer from Turkey and many others who are guilty of tens of billions of damages because they behaved like arrogant kids who thought that no one could do anything to them.
It's normal parental behavior to keep children safe. Especially from what these parents themselves don't
understand and which for them is something like a bubble or a fraudulent scheme. Of course, they will try to
“protect” their children from bitcoin.
Because of such people, Bitcoin gets a bad reputation, and I personally in my environment often hear very negative comments when people talk about this topic. Recently, a fraudster (or just an incompetent kid) disappeared in my country with around 70 million euros that he got from clients to invest in cryptocurrencies, and I don't even have to tell you what kind of media fuss was created about it. In its primetime news program, state television made a feature about it and showed the Bitcoin logo, that is, the logo of a domestic exchange, which has nothing to do with the specific case.
Tell me, when was the media objective? Never. But despite the deceitful way they present information, in the mass consciousness the media still remain a source of “true” information and have a very strong influence on the minds of their viewers. It seems that the media is deliberately demonizing the bitcoin, trying to alienate as many people as possible from it.
Listen to the media and do the opposite, this is how you can reformulate the famous expression.
I want to say that I am not at all surprised that in general less than 5% of people today own cryptocurrencies, and even less Bitcoin - the general perception of Bitcoin is mostly bad to very bad.
Here it’s not so much about the bitcoin, but also about the financial literacy of people in general, which is the basis for investing in general. Add the negative perception of the bitcoin in the public consciousness, the fear of learning and learning new things, not to mention the fact that this requires cash injections, which undoubtedly pushes people away from their passion for the bitcoin. Also, there is one more point - fraudulent schemes and ways to deceive people in order to get their money. Let's not lie, there are a lot of such types of activities, after encountering which, people will be afraid to get involved with something like the bitcoin.
