I hear what you guys are saying but he's my dad and I care about him, and I don't want all his savings to potentially be worthless someday. You're right that I can't "make" him get into it, but I was just wondering if people had any success with particular persuasive points of view. It's not a race, but it's still early in the bitcoin timeline and it seems like the earlier you get into it (assuming the price continues to rise) the better off you'll be later on, relatively speaking.
That's a good idea about giving him one as a gift.
It sounds like you've been listening to some Doomsday dollar is going to be worthless in 5 years because of China or aliens or Obamacare. You shouldn't do that.
I think the advice above about buying him a 1 BTC physical coin as a present is a good way to go.
I don't know about any of that but I keep hearing that the government continues to print out more and more money, as opposed to bitcoins where there's a limited amount.