I set up a workshop yesterday, to talk to people about my new book Bitcoin, Hands-On: 28 “learn by doing” exercises to master the basics of managing your own Bitcoin, including wallets, transactions, and self custody. (If you're interested in buying the book and reviewing it, that would be very much appreciated! Also you can email feedback@bitcoinhandson.com to get a free pdf).
Anyway, my idea was that I would do a short slideshow on bitcoin, and then we'd spend the rest of the time working through the practice exercises, so I could see whether people understand it, what they're confused about and if they get stuck.
Well, that was a bust. They uniformly wanted to just have bitcoin explained to them, and talk about it. Nobody was interested (in this session, anyway, there's 2 more sessions) in dipping their toes in, and actually buying a tiny bit on an exchange.
It was still a good session, and they really appreciated the info and are very interested. BUT they're still not quite ready to take the step of buying. Some of them said they would do it next session.
I guess as someone that's been interested in bitcoin for a couple years, and "gone down the rabbit hole", I have huge base of knowledge on bitcoin, compared to them. I think all of us on stacker.news forget just how much we know.
It's hard for me to understand that the majority of people just have no idea. An experience like this, though, just slaps me in the face with that fact.
We are SO EARLY!