Bitcoin is not cryptocurrency, and whenever I talk to people about it for the first time, they often default to 'crypto' and shrug off everything else I have to say on the matter. There's usually a grumble about an exchange that robbed everyone, or maybe they bought into some shitcoin and had a bad experience.
It doesn't matter to them that Bitcoin is cryptographically (mathematically) secure, more so with ever new block. It doesn't matter to them that it has 100% uptime. And these aren't your run of the mill sheeple I'm talking about, they are people I care about and would hate to see them go by the wayside in this blossoming financial apocalypse.
They feel totally safe buying up gobs of silver and gold, tucking it away in their safe. I guess that isn't a bad thing, but i could use some help explaining to them that Bitcoin is better without sounding like a lunatic. Maybe that's just par for the course, being all-in on such a new thing.
Any help is appreciated. This really feels like the right place to ask.