now.. on the topic.
As much as i enjoy the bitcoin project , you can understand that its still immature(there are no applications, ease of use) for use in everyday transactions. A 50-60-70... yr old cannot use / understand this "bitcoin thingie", they do not own a computer and so on.
Although it would be an interesting project, in real world terms its too soon for something like this.
If you manage to say educate your grandparents to make/accept payments buy showing a qrcode in their smartphone , we could start discussing about it. until then, stop spreading fud
Well that depends, I've worked with 70 year olds who are very much clued in and I've worked with 50 year olds that can barely send a text. That 70 year old was an economist before he retired, on the other hand the 50 year old is a carpenter. You can see how that works, since the carpenter never had to touch a computer in his life. However same does not go for his 20 year old son who is in the same trade but grew up with computers and consoles. On the other hand the economist was using computers at one form or another since the 70ies.
So it's not about age as much as it's... well, should I say "class"? Don't know, maybe "background"?
In general you're right these things aren't necessarily linear with age. On the other hand we are talking about some kind of social change, and as with science, technology, enlightenment in general, there is much social inertia to hold back change. Traditionally the only way to combat this inertia is to wait for the people who can't handle it to die off. That's the way scientific revolutions proceed, and I don't immediately see a compelling reason that coins should be any different. Coins won't be mainstream until most of the folks who were weened on fiat have moved on.