Lots of older people struggle to understand #Bitcoin.

“How can it be real money if you can’t touch it?”

I tell them that Bitcoin is weird just like the internet is weird.

They remember life before the internet and were skeptical that it would have much of an impact… even years after the arrival of the internet age.

Now all of them, even the most technologically unsavvy, have smartphones and use the internet on a daily basis.

Even though it is intangible, it still is *everywhere* and it pervades nearly every aspect of their lives… usually for the better… or, at least, for tremendous convenience.

I tell them that Bitcoin is just the internet of money.

You can’t see it, per se, but it is everywhere… and it is massively useful and beneficial to those who start using it.

Just like the internet was clunky and the butt of many jokes and skepticism (and lies) in the 1990s while the underlying infrastructure and use cases were being built out, so too is Bitcoin the butt of many jokes and skepticism (and lies) while the underlying infrastructure and use cases are being built out today.

Simply put, Bitcoin is better money for a better world… even if some folks don’t quite understand it just yet.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

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…and what a powerful idea, to work and store and actually keep earned value

Also 99% of most people’s wealth is digital anyway. On brokerages or bank databases

Great post. Human brains evolved such that they become less plastic as one gets older. I’m sure there were a lot of mostly older folks in the early 20th century that refused to get electric lights because they couldn’t “see” the electricity, despite the obvious efficiencies it created, and stuck with candles because they understood how they worked.