Quote from: zolace on April 08, 2014, 05:06:31 PM

Quote from: delusiona1 on April 08, 2014, 04:09:57 PM

Hello,

I think we as a community need to begin educating people on how Bitcoin works. The world knows that Bitcoin exist "hooray" but only believes the negative information that is spoon fed to them by the incompetent media. From my observation most of us bitcoiners are avid bitcoin conspiracy theorist. The conspiracy theories is something that we don't need to spread...

What can we do to educate the world, so that mass adoption really speeds up?

ok there are 14 years olds and 10 years old that understand bitcoin, its the Seniors that are the problem. forget them and lets educate the young Teens and college students those are the ones who are gonna spread it, like facebook

Excellent idea here - I've had this reality check in the last few days crash course learning all I can learn and meanwhile starting to tell people in my family about it. Like talking to a box of lettuce...they're all old school. I did step back and assess in a day to day frame whether or not they'd benefit on the short term with btc and it came down to their simple willingness to cling to convenience and status quo rather than spend just a few days reading more about it and finding ways to incorporate it.

Old school money and old school technology are likely not going to care about btc or embrace it.

I owed a relative $50 that I was getting ready to repay over the weekend but ended up obsessively reading the forum. I talked to this person at length about it because they showed receptivity, very sincerely insisting they're totally interested in it. Yesterday I said that Thursday I'd be investing in btc and asked if they'd prefer I add in the 50 I owe and let them watch the market price fluctuations to see how it works and will cash out for them whenever they're ready.

They were all thumbs up about it until I offered that as an option and went fiat instead...which told me they wasted my time talking to them about it, they were humoring me...so I handed off the 50 bucks and watched them hand it over 45 minutes later for pizza.

Agreed, best to preach to the teens and 20somethings who are entering the world fresh out of school - now challenged with the enormous responsibility of remembering which context to use there, they're, their, your and you're...because if they can't master 3rd grade shit, Life is going to sodomize the crap out of them down the road. (Life is hard. It's even harder when you're stupid - Duke)

I also agree that a bitcoin card that can be used to "swipe and go" is going to be the one thing that send btc use mainstream in the shortest amount of time. Investors care about the freedom principle, shoppers just want to cash in and cash out.

+1 for the quoted comments