If bitcoin ever goes mainstream

[novadragon]

If bitcoin ever go mainstream, bitcoin might become more easy and simple in use
but no one knows the future of bitcoin

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[kenbytes]

If bitcoin goes mainstream , it will be fun. Just imagine paying for everything via bitcoin , sounds too good

[gripflierGO]

If bitcoin ever go mainstream, bitcoin might become more easy and simple in use
but no one knows the future of bitcoin

That is true, but as you said that no one know the future of bitcoin, and that is the problem that everyone has in their minds, that whether to trust bitcoins or not, but I don't see that it would get on mainstream in the near future, as it is very difficult to replace fiat, As we know that the market cap of fiat is much more as compared to bitcoins, and it would be difficult to replace fiat very easily.

[randy8777]

If bitcoin goes mainstream , it will be fun. Just imagine paying for everything via bitcoin , sounds too good

sounds fantastic, but it will take a good amount of years will we ever see global adoption. we need patience and support bitcoin by buying things with it.

[umaOuma]

If bitcoin goes mainstream , it will be fun. Just imagine paying for everything via bitcoin , sounds too good

sounds fantastic, but it will take a good amount of years will we ever see global adoption. we need patience and support bitcoin by buying things with it.

Yes patience pays, definitely we need to be more patient and optimistic related to bitcoins as we know that it can be a major currency in the future, if it gets into a mainstream than that would be a blessing for people as they can buy anything by using bitcoins and decentralisation is an added advantage with bitcoins, as a bitcoin users we want that it should get on mainstream as soon as possible.

[Trading]

The inequality on the distribution of wealth is astonishing, even if that graphic only takes in account financial assets and not material goods, including small enterprises, land and houses.

Anyway, bitcoin won't contribute to a more equitable world, on the contrary.

That wasn't my point.

But since you raise it, if the mainstream entered bitcoin (with their paltry 29% of the wealth) before the 0.111% and then refused to trade with the 0.111% in anything but bitcoin then bitcoin would indeed contribute massively to balancing the inequity in global monetary holdings.

You have been given a tool, a new weapon in an age old struggle, it is up to all of us to choose how to use it.

We both know that most "mainstream" people are not pioneers on technological advances, like bitcoin; they won't arrive first than the financial elite. Most people would have to buy bitcoins at very high prices, making rich the geeks and elites (with good advisers) that arrived first.

And most mainstream people don't have any kind of financial independence that might able them to force the financial elites to do anything. They depend on loans to buy almost anything to try to show to their neighbors how "successful" they are.

And long before a small part of this people were bitcoiners, its price would skyrocket. We just need a small percentage of the wealth to be transferred to bitcoin to provoke astonishing prices increases. Less than 0.1% would be enough.

As stated on the original post, I think bitcoin will just aggravate inequality.

[eternalgloom]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

[tspacepilot]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

I think that the android app wallets + services like coinbase and whatever the one is that helps merchants cash out to fiat have made great strides in this department.  I know that when I've bought face-to-face goods with bitcoin it was as easy as scanning a QR code and hitting okay.  Not too bad, as user-friendly goes, IMO.

[MinerHQ]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

I think it will never go to the mainstream. It will be always like now the alternative for the mainstream currencies.

[Skinnyman]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

Can your dad not use Paypal? PP isnt much different from blockchain.info. Besides, it doesn't matter about the older generation. They'll die off eventually but the younger generation are brought up understanding technology so it'll be far easier for them.

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

I think it will never go to the mainstream. It will be always like now the alternative for the mainstream currencies.

That's what they said about the internet and look where we are now.

[harrymmmm]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

Whew. I'm really tired of hearing this old chestnut.
Why do you say this stuff?
I think tv sets will never go mainstream coz they're way too complicated for people to understand.

[marcus_of_augustus]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

Whew. I'm really tired of hearing this old chestnut.
Why do you say this stuff?
I think tv sets will never go mainstream coz they're way too complicated for people to understand.

... pizza will never go mainstream, it's just too hard to understand how you make the round dough and why the crust doesn't burn before the cheese melts.

[dodgecharger]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

I think it will never go to the mainstream. It will be always like now the alternative for the mainstream currencies.

Mainstream will happen is exactly the way things are happening now - with the gradual but persistent adoption of Bitcoin into the mainstream economy.

[Trading]

https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2015/09/01/registers-authoritative-lists-you-can-trust/

An UK governmental service is studying the possibility of adopting a blockchain system to register public data.

[coinplus]

Survival of the fittest. I see bitcoin has all the capability to be a fittest. Bitcoin can solve many financial crisis. Many peoples border problems. Many people's saving dilemmas. Many people's banking. These are few example. At least one is enough to be a mainstream money.

[Nikolai the Barber]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

Whew. I'm really tired of hearing this old chestnut.
Why do you say this stuff?
I think tv sets will never go mainstream coz they're way too complicated for people to understand.

... pizza will never go mainstream, it's just too hard to understand how you make the round dough and why the crust doesn't burn before the cheese melts.

Haha that's pretty funny but it's true. I'm sure peoples parents were worried about using debit cards and atms at first too.

[xhoneyael]

Really, for Bitcoin to go mainstream, it would have to be a lot more noob-friendly than it is now.
I honestly don't see my dad even using blockchain.info to pay for pizza or whatever.

I think it will never go to the mainstream. It will be always like now the alternative for the mainstream currencies.

i think bitcoin have lot of potential to go mainstream..
and as of now there some who already adopting it..
but we cant say its mainstream because it not even 1% of population..
but i think more will come so lets just wait for it

[coinplus]

Bitcoins potential itself will make it as a mainstream payment method very soon. Many financial experts have already agreed that.

[Chomsky]

Survival of the fittest. I see bitcoin has all the capability to be a fittest. Bitcoin can solve many financial crisis. Many peoples border problems. Many people's saving dilemmas. Many people's banking. These are few example. At least one is enough to be a mainstream money.

It has the capability for sure and I think it can certainly help in some of those sectors you mentroned but for it to go mainstream per se I think it will have to be accepted by many stores and merchants.

[Trading]

The strongest repression will come from States with weak currencies, that are too afraid of seeing their fiat coins dumped because of a run to bitcoin as a safe haven:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-websites-blocked-venezuelan-government/