Genuinely want to know what prevents your friends/gf/ colleagues from investing? Did you have any barriers when you first started?
Lack of experience and lack of money was my reason for not investing in Bitcoin from the very beginning when I joined the industry back in 2015. I wasn't capable of sparing the money that was needed to buy as Bitcoin as them I was a very youny man that was just struggling to get food to eat and was schooling at the same time and taking care of myself all alone. Things will be different now if I was just starting because the means to generate the money has been known. Also lack of experience played its role because when I finally had some spare money for myself I didn't invest them wisely and lost majority of them in the 2018 bear market.
I never for one day believe the stories of Bitcoin been a scam, I even got to know about bitcoin from a ponzi scheme (called MMM) that took over my country and every young and old then was caught in the fever. Before then I never knew anything like investing so Bitcoin caught my interest and I to this day, it has had many impact in my life. I don't regret any decisions I have taken upto this day because they all taught me a lesson and all part of my story. I won't do things exactly the same if I had a second chance to start all over because the experience I have gathered are very valuable and I believe they'll help me in the journey ahead.
"MMM" made me to believe that all online investments were scams. After a lot of people lost their money to the ponzi fraudster. In fact i had that fear until I joined bitcoitalk and began to have a better understanding of bitcoin, that first it is legit and not a ponzi scheme. So I'll say my greatest fear was getting scamed by someone that I haven't seen before and I can not sue.