0 sats \ 6 replies \ @faithandcredit 27 May 2022 \ on: Beyond Coffee: Bitcoin for Every Day Use with LNURL bitcoin
How do we onboard people to this ecosystem? It seems that if i go and talk about Bitcoin people immediately resent me. Maybe im just a bad salesman or resentful in general
Generally you need to spark people's curiosity and let them ask you questions about bitcoin, rather than try preaching it. That's from my experience more effective. Like you could start "yeah, I'm into Bitcoin, I spent waaay tooo much time reading the details and trying to understand how it works and what it does. We don't have to get into that if you don't want to, because I could talk long hours about it." [friendly smile]
Usually people will reply with something negative, but with a bit of curiosity, like
- "I don't think it has a chance to catch up" - you could continue that it's in El Salvador and you can pay for coffee in Starbucks,
- "I heard it just wastes so much energy" - you could carefuly start hinting that energy can be used for good things and that US Dollar is backed by US Army eating a lot of energy too,
- if person is hearing it for the first time "and so what is it?" - try avoiding any technobabble, just say oh it's this easy way to send money between people everywhere around the world. Like I can literally send money to someone in Ethiopia in couple seconds. And it's legal in most of the countries.
With some people it takes time to plant the seed. Don't mention Bitcoin at all, but talk about inflation first, how it's hurting people. Talk about the US dollar, how it's used as a tool to steal value from other countries. Talk about sending money abroad and that there is so much extra fees...
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you are talking about no-coiners? or bitcoiners who doesn't want to use LNURL?
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if i understand correctly a no-coiner is someone who has decided to go out of his way to fling shit at for example Bitcoin on social media. I am talking about people who have not yet made this decision. But they seem to immediately turn into no-coiners when you bring up Bitcoin or Lightning. I dont understand :)
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Well sometimes is their decision...
I have friends, who knows I'm in bitcoin, I ask them to invest in this when it was like 1000$, and they dismiss it, they still against this, and they are fine with it, knowing that they could at least increase x10 their investment.
I guess humans have a incredible ability to attach to wrong ideas.
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Don't know if your friends fit the description but here's an interesting read: https://www.citadel21.com/why-the-yuppie-elite-dismiss-bitcoin
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Nice read, no I don't think my friends are Dan, but there is the same resistance to bitcoin and I believe to some ideas no matter the country or the social position you are.
You can see in El Salvador for example, poor people against accepting bitcoin from tourists. :S
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