Genuinely want to know what prevents your friends/gf/ colleagues from investing? Did you have any barriers when you first started?
The reality is that nobody want to lose money, so my fear then of not losing money has kept me away from Bitcoin since the first time I heard about it because many people claim to be losing money online, and I have therefore perceived it as a scam. However, after meeting with some of my friends who are in the cryptocurrency industry, who were able to explain it to me in greater detail and provide me with proof that they have been in the space for a long time and make me understand Bitcoin is not scam,before I was able do my own research and found out the true about Bitcoin before I start to invest in Bitcoin.
Many people that are yet to adopt and invested in bitcoin and they have heard about it, they fear is that they don't want to lose their money.so with that fear they never interest in doing their own research to found out the knowledge.