Quote from: CerealKing on August 20, 2017, 06:00:11 AM

eBay? so I decided with this crazy 4k plus valuation I'd buy some and sell it on eBay, I sell on there all the time anyway and never have any issues. So I first started with this great deal someone was trying to sell 1 bitcoin for $3,000 so I bought it but the ad said "do not pay, contact me first" I decided to listen and he told me to buy $3,000 worth of iTune gift cards and give him the codes and he'd give me 1 bitcoin. Of course the man had over 2,000 feedbacks and 100% and I knew he had been hacked immediately, so I reported it. I got a message from eBay confirming it. Then I decided to sell bitcoin on eBay since I saw others doing it, I bought 0.1 Satoshi and decided I'd sell it and make some profit when/if it goes up, and it did. So I listed it and 3 times I had buyers buy from me and all 3 had been eBay members since 2000-2001 and very broken disgusting English. All 3 had been hacked and I had to refund all 3 their money. I was contacted by all 3 and was told "Sorry I was hacked, I didn't order any Bitcoin"

This problem has nothing to do with Bitcoin. On the contrary: Bitcoin is very good at being a payment system without "undo"-option. Unlike Paypal, unlike most bank transfers.
As a seller, it's very safe to accept Bitcoin. Selling Bitcoin for Paypal is very risky, and most likely a violation of their Terms. You can't blame Bitcoin for this.

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My mom wouldn't have, my girlfriend... most people still do not know about Bitcoin in 2017 and the majority that DO know about it don't even understand how it works.

That's the beauty of it: you don't have to know how it works to be able to use it. I can order food by scanning a QR-code on my screen with my phone, one click (plus an optional PIN) and it's paid.
Now, take a step back. Do you think you understand the concept of money? Most people don't! They think they do, just like they think banks use savings to give out loans. In reality, banks create money out of thin air. The more you try to understand money, the more you'll realize you don't understand it at all.

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6. What if I send to the wrong Bitcoin address by accident? ( it happens btw ) my money where does it go? it's gone. How can something SO GREAT be so flawed?

It's a feature, not a bug! Bitcoin is p2p electronic cash, if you give cash money to the wrong person, it's gone too.

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7. Bitcoin isn't as anonymous as you think.

You may think you know what I think, but I think you don't know what I think, because I don't think Bitcoin is as anonymous as you think that I think it is.

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I'm not saying all Bitcoin is bad, I'm not against it, but I do see it falling, and falling hard.

It's in the nature of Bitcoin to fall hard many times. I have no doubt it will happen again, but I'm also pretty sure it will recover again eventually. This year alone it has fallen hard 4 times, and recovered to a higher value each time. It can take weeks or years, but I'm pretty sure it will recover again.

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All in government backed currency.

Do you even know what this means? Governments (or more accurately: central banks) print (or more accurately: "create") up to trillions per year. You can't exchange your $100 bill for gold when you go to your bank, all they can give you is another $100 bill. Is that "government backed"?

If you take another step back, you'll realize you don't have to trust Bitcoin. You don't have to use it, and you don't have to own it. That is totally fine with me, other users, non-users, governments, and Bitcoin itself. Free choice, isn't that beautiful?
Unlike dollars, euros or whatever your local currency is: even if you hate the fiat system, you absolutely can't go without it for your daily needs and government required payments.

I see no need for Zimbabwean dollars, I don't have them and I don't want them. I know they exist, I know many people use them, but I won't go to a forum to tell users that I don't use it. Why? Because 7 billion people don't use it! Why would any of them feel the need to explain why they don't need it?
And yet... here you are! On Bitcointalk, talking about Bitcoin. That means it means something to you anyway.

Quote from: CerealKing on August 21, 2017, 06:44:29 AM

I also make huge profits from real estate and stocks.

If you take another step back, you'll get to the point where it's rediculous you as an investor makes more profits than the people producing actual goods. Youtube has several documentaries about inequality, but the main point is that for almost the entire history of mankind, "being wealthy" gets you a larger share of economic growth than "working hard". Eventually that has to end, as the rich get more and more, and the working poor need more and more jobs to pay the bills. It's the basis of capitalism, it's a terrible system, but unfortunately all other systems are even worse, so we're kinda stuck with it.

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and it's definitely not going to help poor people

Neither does real estate and stocks.

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Sure the scenario is quite silly, but you said poor people, so I used a poor person scenario, I know plenty of poor people that have issues coming up with $25 dollars, no less $100...

It's never been Satoshi's goal to make poor people rich, nor to help them.
Other altcoins are created for helping the poor. Not by making them rich, but by giving them access to electronic payment systems. Stellar offers "Services for the Underbanked": for $0.01 fee you can make hundreds of thousands of micropayments. Millions of people don't have access to a banking system, but many of them nowadays have access to mobile phones. How nice would it be for them to skip the ancient banking system, and use something that doesn't require rich bankers?