Why is it so hard to get family/friends into bitcoin?

[wheresmycoin]

Don't act like you haven't done this, cuz you know you lyin' brah?!  Try to get your friends/family into bitcoin.

Like everyone I know, I try to get them into bitcoin (new users etc)

They just listen and like the idea (and sometimes get intrigued because of local news).  I also test to see how a new user would get involved.
I get a little frustrated because I think it might succeed and here I am trying to educate a family member/friend on it and there like "okay thats cool, whats on tv" type of attitude.

What would it take to get people seriously behind bitcoin?

And how have you guys explained bitcoins to others (and what were the results?  similar to mine or different?

[Personally this [Suspicious link removed]ite has taught me a lot and I think newer people (then me) would need something like this to get in]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reo7WbibxaQ
shit bitcoiners say xD

have tried a test on my colleagues by offering refund of 200% if bitcoin becomes worthless, and will buy back from them if bitcoin

value is lower than what they bought after holding for a year. Even tried a written contract. None works.

Unless its your really closed friends/person, you can forget about it. or maybe its bitcoin losing popularity?

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[Matheltu]

NIDIAGH who posted on pg. 3 of this thread (acting all innocent) is a SCAMMER!!

DO NOT I repeat DO NOT do business with this person! they scammed me out of $500 and have ignored all of my messages since I sent the money! And this person has the nerve to continue to post on threads and attempt to scam other people. it makes me sick.

SPREAD THE WORD EVERYONE!! I DONT WANT OTHERS TO GET SCAMMED LIKE I DID!

[The Bitcoin Co-op]

Must be something wrong with your friends and family. 

[karibo]

Because bitcoin is still super not-user friendly. And they hear all the bad news in the papers. My family was like isn't bitcoin bankrupt (after mtgox closure)

[softron]

Bitcoin is a tech invention. It will be hard signingup Anyone not into tech, at least for now. Maybe hardware wallets will bring in more noobs.

[vnvizow]

Well maybe after the community's reputation builds up or some major company/country accepts Bitcoin people will accept it too

[ChuckBuck]

Talked to one of my good friends I haven't seen in awhile.  First thing he says is "Are you still in Bitcoins?  Didn't some guy get arrested for it?  Is it banned yet?"

Until we get some "real" positive news, adoption, and answers to all the regulatory questions, Bitcoin will remain on the fringe or outside of the general population.

Maybe if a Starbucks started accepting it as a pilot program, or a small country started adopting it as a supplement or substitute for their current currency, or some major advertising or marketing push occurs in the next few years.

Until then, I'll continue to tell my friends and family the positive things Bitcoin can and will do.

Still, it's a tough sledding...

[Bit_Happy]

I always make the comparison with a Casino.

Casino: Just drop €50 on red at the roulette and it can go zero or double
Bitcoin: can go zero as well, but can reach far more than double in the long term.

Casino: You're done in a few minutes/hours
Bitcoin: Gives joy for months.


Just make sure they are willing to loose everything, just like I do myself.

That is a good way to make sure they are prepared to lose, but doesn't tell them what BTC is really about.

[keithers]

I got a few friends into it, but i regretted it, because they would text me every time it went down $5, and and ask me why it keeps crashing...LOL.  I honestly think you can only briefly explain it to friends/family, and then it's up to them if they want to research and learn about it.  Honestly, most people are just too lazy and complacent to try anything new because they are creatures of habit.

[Bit_Happy]

Why is it so hard to get family/friends into bitcoin?
1) Because some/many of us don't want to tell our family/friends about BTC.
2) We tell them and it doesn't go very well.
^^^
This is clearly an important issue.

[stokecrypto]

i wouldnt recommend bitcoin to any of my friends and family at the moment,

bitcoin and the altcoin scene has become way to scammy to bring a noob in at this point especily my family or friends

[keithers]

Why is it so hard to get family/friends into bitcoin?
1) Because some/many of us don't want to tell our family/friends about BTC.
2) We tell them and it doesn't go very well.
^^^
This is clearly an important issue.

#2 has happened to me 2 out of the 3 times that I actually got good friends into BTC.   I'm sure it will be fine in the medium to long term...but it was like insta-plummett right after they bought in...lol.  Good thing that each of them just tip toed in and bought like 4-10 BTC only

[BitOnyx]

At point when you find shop, that your family/friends are shopping often at and it is accepting bitcoin, they will easily embrace idea of different kind of payment solution.