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?
I also think people downright refuse education on global financial matters as it would use up too many braincells (and overload them). The majority still goes with the flow - whereever it leads them.
Attempting to bring BTC
to them will always be seen as advertising/spamming or preaching. Those who wish to participate need to come by themselves, it's the only way.
Plus, educating them would also be a three-edged sword :
- advantages
-
risks-
how to effectively and safely use BTCTechnically speaking, Bitcoin is still far away from
general usability, its infrastructure is still
waaay to complicated and user-unfriendly for the average Joe Sixpack to pick up & use.
So far, nobody has built a bridge for that hughe usability gap (a secure, one-size-fits-all, all-features-in-one BitCoin application that operates cross-platform and could be used by non-techy people from age 4 to age 90 that never used a computer).
And adding the risks to the education process (in the techy world of BTC) would downright exceed most people's abilities, even most typical computer users need to perform active research to get their knowledge kit together concerning current IT security.
PS.
If you tried to bring them i.e. to precious metals, you'd be labeled a goldbug and/or a conspiracy theorist and get weird looks.
If you tried to bring them i.e. to CryptoCurrencies - they'd likely and simply just not understand you at all, even if they tried. You'd probably get a blank face (visible "Software failure" of their brain

).
It's just nothing you can fully and correctly explain to average people within a few sentences that covers their limited attention span.