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10 sats \ 2 replies \ @birdeye21 OP 25 Jul 2023 \ parent \ on: What's something bitcoiners do that HURTS adoption more than it helps? bitcoin
i've made that mistake a few too many times lol
We all have. I made my wife watch this hour long documentary on bitcoin years ago and it explained the specifics of how the blockchain works, mining and so on. It wasn't super technical but it was a lot of information. She wasn't receptive at all, pretty much thought it was like a tech stock to bet on that uses too much energy. Then one day she was telling me about her friend having trouble sending money across the world and it taking 5 days to settle and costing 150 bucks to send 2000 or something like that and I said why didn't they just use bitcoin and I explained how that would work and the lightbulb went off. I said you know this is very valuable to people trying to send remittances back to their home countries who are waiting days and paying exorbitant rates. This one use case started to change her mind about bitcoin and over the years she hasn't turned into full laser eyed maxi but she is more pro bitcoin than negative and owns it now and saves a bit in it every month.
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I'm a firm believer that if BTC truly is a universal technology, then there really is a use case or advantage or something that anyone around the world can find valuable. It's not just some niche. But it can be more difficult for some than others to figure out what it is they need to hear for the lightbulb to go off.
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