Help me differentiate this thought, teach a man how to fish or give him Bitcoin.

[UserU]

Which Bitcoin giveaways are you refering too? In my experience, most of them are either scam or luck based.

I'm not sure how the whole thread derailed with giveaways, but it's just a proverb of what happens when you give someone a whole Bitcoin.

It could be a father entrusting his child to keep safe it, or a family member entrusting someone else with it.

Come to think of it, I'm not even sure why the discussion is centered around its literal interpretation.

[masulum]

I remember what I did to someone who are very close to me. When he was having a hard time making money, I tried to give him a little crypto and introduced trading and holding. because, in my opinion, if I just give him money, maybe he will never understand how hard it is to make money in the crypto world. So, I decided to introduce trading, and it was up to him, if he wants to use that ,oney to be traded or not, then I told him that I won't be giving away money for free in the future if he only wish get another money. Because we never know what he will do in the future, will he be independent in following what we teach or will it only burden our lives. But, I will agree to another member, better to give me knowladge before we are giving him a giveaway.

[finaleshot2016]

Better to teach him how to fish than give him a free bitcoin. For a crypto investor, bitcoin is very valuable even the price market right now is very low due to market crash, you still see the potential and the future value of bitcoin. Do you think you'd have the same reaction if you gave someone a bitcoin? Of course, he'll act irresponsibly, such as selling due to a lack of knowledge when market occurs.

If you teach someone how to learn crypto and how to earn more, he will have the same perspective as an investor, who can see the potential of crypto and will make sensible market decisions.

It's not easy to handle a thing like crypto; people thought it was, but it's not, so let's always teach each other about crypto and remind them to DYOR and be mindful as much as possible.\
My friends are giving some cryptos to my other friends, but first, they want to make sure they understand how crypto works.

[bepbep]

Diving into Bitcoin is not so easy for a newbie like me. It takes a lot of patience and a good mental an psychological conditioning but for me it would be nicer to say "teach a man how to mentally tough, learn to trade , give him bitcoin and he will feed for a lifetime" does it sounds good ? Please correct me if I'm wrong but that is what I learned something reading books about investing and trading.

[traderethereum]

If you teach him a way to make money, he will survive in any conditions without getting afraid if he can not eat someday because he has the basic thing to continue his life.
He will repeatedly try to make money from the way you gave and he will not give up (but that will depend on that person).
Mostly, if you give them bitcoin aka money, they feel comfortable and become lazy to search for the way and only wait for the next give from the other people.
As humans, we need to try hard to survive and if we only expect the other to help us, how can we survive in the hardest of life.
In this case, if we can teach him and show the way, he will try by himself to make money and if he gets into trouble, he can ask us, which will improve his knowledge to become better.

[Luffygroove]

Where is the place you refer to?. As far as I know, Bitcointalk already prohibits those giveaways and whoever held it or even join it, will get a ban. I personally experienced it lol and learn from my mistake, I won't ever join that kind of giveaways anymore where you don't do any efforts to gain and just writings your credentials below the thread.

I can't talk about other places, it's probably right if you see it on social media, but I believe there's only a small portion of them are legit, the rest won't give anything. People will learn eventually that it's useless. It's not easy to get money from the crypto world and people should know it.

[Anguwa]

The different is very clear, but depending on personal views and perspectives. Teaching a man how to fish, meaning showing or guiding a man a way to Hustle so as to have a joyful lifestyle after success, but when u give me bitcoin or give me what to eat for a while, I might still be dependent on someone to give me another time, in cryptocurrency perspective, given bitcoin might resolve to different things which can be favorable and in the other way round it might not favor. Therefore Teaching me how to fish is better than given me bitcoin.

[Kiley33]

The original of the parable says: "Give a man a fish, and he will be fed one day. Give a man a fishing rod, and he will be fed all his life."
It goes on to speak of a lazy student who also hoped to receive fish every day.

There was then a newer saying, some sort of mockery towards those who love to go fishing and it tells:
"Give a man a fish, and he will be fed one day. Give a man a fishing rod, and he will be gone all day long drink beer and pretend to be fishing."


Back to OP, it depends on the person you "give Bitcoin". Some will live long and will always have money to feed their family (selling some satoshi when in need and maybe even buy them back when possible, or get the taste and trade or simply earn/work for bitcoin), some others will sell all the coins at the first occasion they get (or first time there's a dip and some FUD).

Yes . Not all people are suitable for fishing.
Some people may only teach him how to put the fishing rod and he already knows how to raise the fishing rod after catching a fish. Some people teach everything to them. He may forget quickly or learn the skills.
Fishing also has tools, such as fishing rods and fishing nets. Some people are suitable for fishing rods, while others are suitable for fishing nets.

[Darker45]

1. Give a man Bitcoin and he'll be fed for centuries? Wait a minute, how's that even possible? Giving a man Bitcoin in exchange for nothing is exactly giving a man a fish. The man will use the Bitcoin to buy his necessities. When the last Satoshi has been spent, what's next for the man? To beg for more Bitcoin?

2. Forget about the giveaways on social media. They're not really for free. And any man couldn't live on them either. It cannot even buy a small piece of stale fish.

3. Teaching a man Bitcoin doesn't feed him for centuries either. I'd say give a man a job, with a decent salary of course, and he'll be sufficiently fed for as long as he lives.

[Lordhermes]

The different is very clear, but depending on personal views and perspectives. Teaching a man how to fish, meaning showing or guiding a man a way to Hustle so as to have a joyful lifestyle after success, but when u give me bitcoin or give me what to eat for a while, I might still be dependent on someone to give me another time, in cryptocurrency perspective, given bitcoin might resolve to different things which can be favorable and in the other way round it might not favor. Therefore Teaching me how to fish is better than given me bitcoin.

You are very correct.I also prefer being taught how to fish than been given the fish.To a man,the best thing you can ever do to him is to show him how to make money,giving him money is also good,but showing him how to make the money is the best thing you can ever do to him.

In crypto,Bitcoin can metamorphose into something reasonable in future,the both ways can work perfectly well for someone that has a good knowledge about Crypto currency.He can decide to invest and get back the money given to him,but being taught how to make the money is the best.