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100 sats \ 3 replies \ @realBitcoinDog OP 8 Dec \ parent \ on: @grayruby got NO IDEA what The Bitcoin Dog and @realBitcoinDog got cookin’ Dogs_And_Cats
Did u have any personal family or friends tell u to buy it? Did u know any who had it? Have u had people approach you first? Have you tried convincing ppl yourself?
Do u agree that unfortunately ppl need “time” for it to soak in for them. Do u agree from your own story that Twitter/nostr/SN are ineffective, and ultimately its books/coursework/hard news or hard education podcasts that actually convinced u?
The big thing for me is being clear on what actually gets ppl down the rabbit hole. Cus it’s so fun to spend all my time in the echo chamber talking to my tribe now that I found my people. But I don’t want to kid myself that it’s productive or helping anything. Or is it?
No, no one I know told me to buy. I had heard about bitcoin in the news and online but never from anyone I knew personally.
I have convinced a number of people to buy bitcoin but I don’t think it is a good way. I try to convince people to learn about bitcoin now.
I do think things like Twitter, Nostr, SN are good as resources to access people to learn from but people have to want to do the work and learn. I do think v4v and Bitcoin rewards integrated into applications people use is a good way to get them interacting with, holding, using bitcoin and that’s better than nothing. I think SN can be a very good resource because a complete newbie could have the best of both worlds on SN- using bitcoin and having a great resource for education as well.
I agree it takes time. I think there are more resources and ways to get exposure now than when I first found bitcoin but the rabbit hole is ultimately a journey.
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Yup it’s a journey either way. I agree convincing them to start to learn is better than convincing them to buy.
But of course convincing people to buy $100 worth just to get off zero and get some skin in the game and monetary incentive to learn more can be effective too!