Quote from: Sayeds56 on Today at 03:07:13 PM

Quote from: JayTrain on April 26, 2023, 08:17:39 PM

It's true that misinformation and negative propaganda surrounding Bitcoin has led to a lack of widespread adoption and investment in the asset. However, as more people become educated about Bitcoin and its potential for long-term growth, we may see a shift in attitudes towards it. makeWhile there are risks associated with any investment, the potential rewards of Bitcoin cannot be ignored.

You are absolutely right that negative propaganda and misinformation has played a key role in shaping up unfavorable public perception of Bitcoin and this is the reason, it has not achieved the level of adoption and investment what potentially it could have attained by now. However, we need to acknowledge that there are also unique risk associated with this digital asset, such us extreme volatility which has been the main barrier to its widespread adoption. despite all these issues, it is important to acknowledge that Bitcoin remains the best performing asset during the past more than 10 years.

I really have difficulties with the various arguments that relate to "if x had not happened, then bitcoin would have higher levels of adoption than it has now."

It just seems like failures/refusals to accept whatever is, is (or whatever happens, happens)... There are all kinds of factors that affect BTC price, and some of those factors have to do with ongoing and likely inevitable battles and manipulation attempts (whether in the realm of physically pushing the price or whether in the realm of information warfare and whether successful or not).

In some sense, any of us involved in the investment of bitcoin have to be ready, willing and able to deal with the various extremes and irrationalities that comes from being invested in a kind of battle zone investment asset.

I frequently like to assert that the powers that be are going to push bitcoin prices (and even expectations about bitcoin) down as far as they can and keep it down for as long as they can.. until they cannot do it any more, and that's part of the reason that when they lose control of the price, there ends up being various upward explosions.... .. and specifically, I like to give the example of keeping BTC below $500 in 2015/2016... at a certain point, it became impossible to keep the price below $500, but if they could have had kept the price below $500 they would have... those fucks... hahahahaha..

....and they ended up losing that battle for $500 even though it stretched on for well over a year.. maybe even a few years, if you think about it.. they won the battle to keep the BTC price below $500 in 2014 and 2015 and part of 2016.. until they no longer won it., and in some sense there was humor in all of that, so long as you continued to buy BTC, hold BTC and not to get flushed out of your ability to maintain some BTC (or even to build your BTC position during that time), even while, at the same time, there was ongoing and ever-present fear, when you are actually a BTC holder because you do not know if "they" are going to be successful in keeping the BTC price below whatever the price point might be at the time (in the case of 2016.. and even going into 2017 the price point threshold seemed to have had been $500), and in March 2017, there were all kinds of folks scared out of either buying BTC or selling too much BTC too soon or selling what BTC they had because they believed that diptwat Vinny Lingham about BTC prices going back below $500 because that is what the powers that be wanted (and were going to be able to do), and how did that "waiting for $500" work out for those folks in March 2017? Not so well... especially, if they are still waiting or bitter about having had believed that bullshit.. and did not buy BTC or sold too much of their BTC too soon because they were "expecting a lower price."

Quote from: tabas on Today at 03:16:35 PM

I reckon that Bitcoin is the best asset that I've ever invested and there's no lie to that. It had even made me an investor despite of having not so good background investing. And with those people with the collaboration of media, they're portraying Bitcoin as something bad and only used by criminals or used to get paid illegal services. I think that this thought will never be gone but at least it's changing. From those people that have the idea that they'll be scammed through investing in Bitcoin, they probably have the experience of being scammed once online and that's why they don't dare to invest in Bitcoin. Anyway, results will be the noise later on and they can't ignore how Bitcoin moves as an asset that's highly volatile and they will not deny that fact once they've started to open their minds.

Yeah going by your forum registration date tabas, you have had 7 years registered in the forum and perhaps a possibility of having had gotten involved in bitcoin for nearly two full cycles - however, we know that many times, it can take a decent amount of time to build an investment position - unless you are bringing resources from the outside and reallocating some of your investment portfolio into bitcoin.

A brand new investor might take 10 years or more just to build his/her investment portfolio into something in which s/he is starting to feel as if the investment portfolio is starting to become of a substantial size that is meaningful and potentially life changing.

Quote from: cydrix on Today at 04:04:45 PM

I have noticed that about people in today's society. Kids would undoubtedly choose a well-known method of saving money, such as a bank, given that kids are taught about it in class and how it operates, etc. Only a few schools worldwide have recognized Bitcoin as a subject, and Bitcoin doesn't receive the respect it rightfully deserves. Some schools don't even educate students about the significant influence of Bitcoin. because they could find it difficult to teach it in schools. In contrast to decentralized systems like Bitcoin, which are vulnerable to fraud and scams, many individuals prefer centralized systems because they provide confidence and protection for their money. They find it difficult to accept Bitcoin since they only perceive it as a difficult alternative currency, which is exacerbated by its volatility. Most people would consider Bitcoin to be a "scam" or "complicated system" if you asked them about it in this country, which is accurate given that you would require prior knowledge of this sector.

You spend your whole post focusing on the negatives that people think about bitcoin, but so fucking what? We know a lot of people think negatively about bitcoin, and so if the school is teaching bullshit and dumb topics, and you happen to have a kid, or a relative or even friends who have kids in school, there can be opportunties to ask the kids what they are learning in school and then to ask the kids if they believe that bullshit (if it happens to be bullshit that they are learning)..

There is always going to be a certain amount of bullshit that is taught, and I doubt that we get anywhere by merely proclaiming that everyone believes bullshit and everyone is believing in bullshit, and so when any one of us is interacting in the world, then we can talk about these various topics and to say why we believe some topics are bullshit (such as various ways in which money is used to control people).. and how other topics are more liberating and empowering.. such as bitcoin giving various ways in which people can control, preserve and manage their wealth and for sure none of the systems of disinformation are going to change overnight, but I doubt that we get very far by merely complaining that they exist without figuring out various ways to interact with such systems and continue to spread the word about bitcoin and the importance that everyone - whether kid or adult - whether rich or poor, whether governmental representative, institutional representative or individual.. learn about bitcoin and to invest into bitcoin in a variety of ways in order that some preparations are being made for the various ways in which the world is going to continue to change in favor of more and more bitcoin allocation, and those people who are ignoring bitcoin or failing/refusing to allocate into bitcoin are going to continue to lose out to bitcoin... so that remains their choice.. and to the extent that any of us is able to interact with people in our lives and to get their attention, we can discuss these matters, and many people are way more receptive to bitcoin than we might believe so long as we continue to be persistent in our own beliefs, and even though it could take some of these people 10, 20 or more years before they finally start to recognize and appreciate the power of king daddy... aka dee cornz.