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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Why people think technical knowlege is required to invest in or adopt bitcoin.
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keshav.sawant.83
on 18/01/2019, 01:56:09 UTC
I somewhat agree. The thing is, bitcoin is quite easy enough to use if you're decently tech-savvy. The difficulty comes when less tech-savvy people would try to secure their funds with their own wallets, backing up their private keys and such. Those things might be a huge hassle to them; as you know nowadays, people are used to convenience like saving their passwords on their phone's notes app and just simply recovering their password whenever they lose access to their passwords. Account hacked? Easy, press the recover account button! As for crypto, getting your private keys stolen? You're screwed. You can't call a bank to reverse the transactions.

I do agree with you. I am just afraid that cryptocurrency community has portrayed bitcoin as only for a technical person to use, which I feel is absolutely wrong. For a regular person its like "Dude you will never understand blockchain stay away from it.".
During initial days of internet hackers use to hack email inbox with just modifying the URL with other username, that didn't stop people from using email without technical knowledge. They will be hacked once may be twice then they will know how to save their wallets and  what precaution to take.
I believe let people learn from their mistakes rather than discourage them from beginning.