Quote from: hyphymikey on July 14, 2014, 11:06:18 PM

Quote from: spooderman on July 14, 2014, 10:43:54 PM

Quote from: hyphymikey on July 14, 2014, 10:01:32 PM

Quote from: spooderman on July 14, 2014, 09:38:30 PM

I had a chat with an old relative of mine today. Bitcoin entered the conversation. He said, oh that, that's a ponzi scheme. I said no it's not. He then explained to me what a ponzi scheme is and I said yes I know it LOOKS like one because of the massive amount made by people involved from the beginning, but is the internet a ponzi scheme? No? Well what if you bought sex.com in 1992 for a hundred bucks?

Then he said you can't buy plane tickets with it, so I said yes you can www.expedia.com then we stopped talking about it and it was time to get some food, and he said you can't buy food with bitcoin, and I said yes you can! (I was talking about buying pizza funnily enough), then he said you can't buy a flat with it etc......

It's nice that bitcoin has developed to the stage where there's constant examples of its acceptance, functionality and superiority to fiat.

To d4 m00n!

Ask him if he knows what a laggard is.

Nah, he's just too old for this. No need to insult him.

I wouldn't call that insulting. Just that by the time he realizes what bitcoin really is he may be too late to reap the profit portion of the benefits it will bring us.

He's too old to know or care. You're talking about people that don't use google here. I realise that telling this story here was probably not the best idea.

To the person who just said they hate people like that, there are plenty of people who don't understand bitcoin and are lovely, generous people who just want to not see other people lose their money. (Like JorgeStolfi CLAIMS to be doing, except he is doing it in entirely the wrong place. He might as well start an anti-smoking campaign in a room full of people dying of lung cancer.)