I totally agree with you NOW as someone who now understands crypto, BUT back in 2011, when I was a layman, I saw the crappy cartoon video and thought, "This is crap, man. Don't pay me in crappy shitcoin, Gimme dollars!" The cartoon video went too much into the nerdy mechanics of it while the 2nd video was more humanistic. It talked about how it would disruptively revolutionize money on a global scale. I am a human being. I need a humanistic explanation, not a nerdy "how it works" video.
Some guy in my church told everyone to invest in bitcoin back in 2011. He just told people the nerdy mechanics of it and told people how it worked. Nobody listened to him. People thought he was crazy. I joined this church recently and told people a humanistic explanation of why bitcoin is so important and half a dozen people immediately asked me to drive them to a bitcoin ATM. These 6 people also used all or some of their bitcoins to buy Monero.
I am not blaming the video for not investing in 2011. I am asking you guys to explain bitcoin and monero in a humanistic manner while glossing over the mechanics of how it works in order to get more people on board and using bitcoin (and other cryptos like Monero).
LOL yeah blame the video for you not investing.
<----- the lesson of why not to judge a book by its cover.
Seriously the video could have been two guys holding up cut out paper puppets attached to chopsticks doing a play to explain what and how bitcoin works and why it matters and I would have still saw the importance.
"Better video"? I thought the we use coins video make the message perfectly clear the FIRST time I watched it.
It is the same reason that I support Monero. Its interface make look like crap (CLI) but it does something important very well.
The makeup and lipstick will come.
Some guy in my church told everyone to invest in bitcoin back in 2011. He just told people the nerdy mechanics of it and told people how it worked. Nobody listened to him. People thought he was crazy. I joined this church recently and told people a humanistic explanation of why bitcoin is so important and half a dozen people immediately asked me to drive them to a bitcoin ATM. These 6 people also used all or some of their bitcoins to buy Monero.
I am not blaming the video for not investing in 2011. I am asking you guys to explain bitcoin and monero in a humanistic manner while glossing over the mechanics of how it works in order to get more people on board and using bitcoin (and other cryptos like Monero).
Yup, back in 2011, I saw the "we use coins" video and thought that bitcoin was crap because the video was crap. Now, I wish I bought back then because I would've made a tidy profit. It was at less than $10 per BTC when I saw the video and it was at over $1000 when I saw bitcoin next on the internet. Why didn't the "we use coins" guys make a better freaking video?!
Crap "we use coins" video: https://youtu.be/Um63OQz3bjo
Video that caused me to invest in Bitcoin and later other cryptocurrency: https://youtu.be/rzKdW-au110
Nobody learns of something then buys it the very next day. When I first heard of Bitcoin in 2011 I was interested, but had no money to invest. When I finally made the decision to buy some in 2012, it still took a few months to do research on how to buy it, how to use it, then finally buy it. If some new people are interested and learning about it, that's all that matters now.
Crap "we use coins" video: https://youtu.be/Um63OQz3bjo
Video that caused me to invest in Bitcoin and later other cryptocurrency: https://youtu.be/rzKdW-au110
I was checking the prices to see if a person was really trying to go "all in" on what americanpegasus was selling/marketing, and it only went up a cent... No matter, I believe that if a majority of them start reading more into it and seeing what's at stake, then I think they'll start slowly buying into it. I think most of them know that the price of any altcoin isn't going to skyrocket when the GUI isn't even out yet, like what americanpegasus pointed out in one of his answers.
Nobody learns of something then buys it the very next day. When I first heard of Bitcoin in 2011 I was interested, but had no money to invest. When I finally made the decision to buy some in 2012, it still took a few months to do research on how to buy it, how to use it, then finally buy it. If some new people are interested and learning about it, that's all that matters now.
LOL yeah blame the video for you not investing.
<----- the lesson of why not to judge a book by its cover.Seriously the video could have been two guys holding up cut out paper puppets attached to chopsticks doing a play to explain what and how bitcoin works and why it matters and I would have still saw the importance.
"Better video"? I thought the we use coins video make the message perfectly clear the FIRST time I watched it.
It is the same reason that I support Monero. Its interface make look like crap (CLI) but it does something important very well.
The makeup and lipstick will come.
I understand your point and yes it is a good thing to make the videos more humanistic. But that kind of says that techies are not humans or humanistic and is kind of ignorant as well. There is both sides to that point.
The video was made to explain why bitcoin had advantages where fiat missed the point.
At the end of the weusecoins video they say that "Bitcoin is changing finance much like email changed the postal service".
Very powerful words if you listened to it.
My question to you is did you watch the weusecoins video all the way through the first time you saw it?