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5 sats \ 2 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 20 Nov \ on: How to convince my parents about bitcoin? ideasfromtheedge
How many people understand how fiat money works?
1%?
How many Bitcoiners understand how fiat money works?
My guess would be less than 50%.
Before you try to convert people to Bitcoin, understand what it is yourself.
It is not as some claim a guaranteed pathway to easy riches.
Bitcoin is not guaranteed to succeed.
Bitcoin is a peaceful revolutionary attempt to build a voluntary decentralised monetary system- quite different to centralised and compulsory fiat!
Yes you want to help family, but they cannot be forced to chose to adopt Bitcoin and should not be forced to. Bitcoin despite what some will claim, is still not guaranteed.
It still carries risks. It should only be acquired by people wanting to be part of a peaceful and constructive revolution seeking to build a fairer alternative to fiat...people aware this carries potential risks and rewards- not all people will want to be part of it.
Thank you very much for your reply, I agree with most of what you say.
It's not that I want to force them, because that's impossible, but I want them to at least listen to me. They are no longer teenagers with all the energy in the world, they are adults now and I want them to think about their future and how to preserve their time and energy in something that won't lose value or to save their savings in a bank that could suddenly go bankrupt. I don't know if I managed to explain my point of view.
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Understand how you feel - since I found Bitcoin I at first tried to tell people I knew but all I got for it was grief.
I came to the conclusion it is just not for everyone.
Yes, now Bitcoin has performed amazingly and those who naysayed it have been shown wrong to some extent at least.
It has given me amazing freedom of choice and I know others as well, but there is still some sort of mechanism at work here- at least this is what I believe-
-Most people who adopt bitcoin are to some extent anti-establishment- prepared to if not keen to question and break away from the established authorities- and so far Bitcoin has rewarded them/us-
I think of the Occupy Movement too that some of us were involved in - how frustrating that it was not able to gain traction or achieve change that was/is so badly needed ~ but now we can see Bitcoin Has Literally Occupied Wall St!
There is however still a majority of people who do not want to question the status quo and who believe and trust in or just blindly obey the established authorities- imo it is difficult to ask them to change their viewpoint- it is something that can only come from life experience.
IMO if they do not want to be part of a revolution challenging the current fiat power structures then they are probably not not be ready to invest in Bitcoin.
You can try to educate them about why change is needed, but some people simply do not want to know because to know that stuff takes a lot of energy and often needs to overcome extensive societal conditioning.
Despite its current obvious and amazing success to date, bitcoin is still not guaranteed to triumph and so best suited for those of us who genuinely want to be part of the revolution.
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