What makes our job so hard to spread awareness

[hl5460]

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[botany]

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The page is in Chinese (or Japanese)!

[insidertradingeverywhere]

he's right. Bitcoin and surroundings is 99% scammers. Bitcoin itself is a miners scam.

If you have been involved in MLM or CULTS spread, you would understand why.

so many people look bitcoin as a cult

and it actually is one. A textbook commercial cult ... there have been others before that. Some altcoins are even worse.

[Flashman]

Heh, and the "Faith and trust and pixie dust" people don't like heretics. Most people can't seem to cope with the truth about money. It's really a consensus illusion.

What the blockchain does is make that illusion less subject to manipulation, fraudulent accounting at highest levels. The fact that the wealth and GDP of the nation can be "re-imagined" by whatever clique currently holds sway is put forward as an advantage of the consensus illusion.

Bitcoin succeeds in nailing a lot of this jello to the wall, and getting us a "reality based" monetary unit.... yes, it has a heck of a lot of the same faults as the incumbent system, but there's vanishingly few criticisms of bitcoin that don't apply in spades to the alternative. If it's even 1% better it's a resounding success. We like to hope that it's a little more than that overall.

[fenican]

I'm surprised that so few vendors offer a Visa/Mastercard debit card that can be linked to a BTC wallet. That seems like the holy grail since it allows someone to hold most of their wealth in Bitcoin but buy goods, with instant fiat conversion, anywhere major credit cards are accepted.

A mistake the Bitcoin community has made, which has really hampered adoption and confused the public, is to push for people to have full wallets on their laptop or mobile device and do transactions through that. The result has been predictable - theft/hacking, non-existent vendor adoption, and widespread consumer frustration with the speed of the protocol.

Many companies are moving to make the Bitcoin experience as convenient as a normal debit card so hopefully we'll see an explosion in volume once some of these experiments meet with success.

[drugs]

I think the hardest part about spreading awareness is just the general ignorance and apathy of the public. They don't really care or want to understand. Hopefully they will regret their unwillingness to understand it in the future.

[Flashman]

A mistake the Bitcoin community has made, which has really hampered adoption and confused the public, is to push for people to have full wallets on their laptop or mobile device and do transactions through that. The result has been predictable - theft/hacking, non-existent vendor adoption, and widespread consumer frustration with the speed of the protocol.

ummmm right, ppl should have had their coins with the likes of neo&bee, inputs.io, MtGox... 

[Jesu]

Bitcoin is a difficult concept to grasp so it's also bound to be difficult to try spread to people. Most people sadly aren't all that interested in the economics of money or libertarian principles so they probably wont be as excited about bitcoin as most of us here, though all you can do is try your best to explain it to them and hope they listen. If not, oh well.

[Lethn]

A mistake the Bitcoin community has made, which has really hampered adoption and confused the public, is to push for people to have full wallets on their laptop or mobile device and do transactions through that. The result has been predictable - theft/hacking, non-existent vendor adoption, and widespread consumer frustration with the speed of the protocol.

ummmm right, ppl should have had their coins with the likes of neo&bee, inputs.io, MtGox... 

I certainly haven't advocated having their savings on a mobile device, I've advocated a laptop that has had it's connection completely disabled because USB sticks would be too easy to lose, but that's it, the main thing is to always make sure if you store a large amount of coin long term you have no connection to it.

[botany]

Bitcoin is a difficult concept to grasp so it's also bound to be difficult to try spread to people. Most people sadly aren't all that interested in the economics of money or libertarian principles so they probably wont be as excited about bitcoin as most of us here, though all you can do is try your best to explain it to them and hope they listen. If not, oh well.

They definitely will understand transaction costs and inflation.
Once bitcoin's price stabilizes, these will be major selling points.