Quote from: melody82 on June 02, 2015, 04:53:47 PM

Quote from: turvarya on June 01, 2015, 12:06:42 PM

Quote from: melody82 on June 01, 2015, 07:13:53 AM

Yeah I see what you are saying. I think the first step is to simplify the exchange process. I had to read up on how to buy bitcoins and tbh it was a total pain to get some. If you could just buy them direct from a bank account in stead of having to wait a week or pay a hefty transfer fee then that would go a long way to better adoption. That will be the first barrier to cross. The second will be transaction speed. The average person does not want to wait so long for a transaction to go through. They are used to credit cards and instant money. Third there needs to be some advantage that bitcoins have. Why would the average person use bitcoins in stead of dollars? If I get ripped off using my CC then I just call them and have the transaction reversed. BTC has no such thing. It needs to have an advantage for the average person and not just us.

1. Making an account at an exchange is most times easier than making an account in a bank. The only difference is, that people already have a bank account for a long time.
2. Transactions are instant. Did you ever buy something with Bitcoin? I don't think so. For me it always takes less than 2 seconds.
3. Sure, reversing transactions seem like a good idea, until somebody reverses the transaction made to you. That happens all the time.

1. Ok true, there is one exception which is Kraken. Making an account there was a total pita for me.
2. Ha! no they are not. Money transfers between point a and point b can take up to 6 confirmations, and you are not guaranteed a confirmation every 10 minutes. Can you imagine waiting at starbucks for 20 minutes for your confirmations? Most of the time the site only needs 2 confirmations from me, but I have seen up to six. So in my experience transactions are not instant. Credit cards are instant. Bitcoin is not.
3. I have never had a transaction reversed on me, but I have done it twice to bad companies that tried to rip me off. I am not saying that reversals are a good idea, but it is super easy to get scammed using bitcoins. Until this changes it will be a barrier for wider adoption.

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I am talking about paying with bitcoin, not money transfer. I guess, you have just used exchanges so far or put Bitcoin in your casino account.
To counter your hypothetical starbucks example: Some weeks ago, I was in a beerbar. I was pretty drunk, but I knew beforehand, that the guy was accepting Bitcoin and I asked him about it. He made a few clicks on his computer and showed me his screen. There was a QR-Code. I grabbed my phone, started Mycelium, pushed send, scanned the QR-Code, entered my pin and clicked confirm. He took a look at the screen and said something like "That's alright" and I left.
That is the real life case, with Bitcoin. So, please, unless you had a real bad experience, just accept, that, this is how it works and restrain from making up stories.