OK, plebs, I need your help now: I'm trying to orange pill a relative, but he's too much in favor of our current crooked system with the USD, mainly because of the stability it guarantees.
He's a liberal in financial terms, and a conservative Christian with regard to beliefs and ethics...
He gave me the promise that he'd read four articles on #bitcoin that I would choose, so please send me your most convincing pieces.
#plebstr #asknostr #orangepill #plebchain
You can't convince people who don't want to be convinced. Better to spend your time elsewhere, even if it hurts
True. I talk to my sisters almost everyday of bitcoin for the past 4 years and they still dont have any and dont want it.. my older sister bought some the other day but i bet it was to shut me up and i bet she sold it back to fiat.. ahaha im to the point where i just smirk and with toxicity say bitcoin fixes that problem you have..
My challenge consists in the fact that he's a really smart guy that actually knows about technology, the world if finance, and the terms of the current world order.
And it seems to me that he finds all alternatives less attractive due to the potential disruption of order and foreseeability...!
Thanks, I'll look into this.
He has a good understanding of blockchain technology, I should say. One of his main arguments is that it is used for drugs, human trafficking, porn0graphy, and ...
Difficult one... but bitcoin magazine is helpful, learnmeabitcoin.com had an easy explanation and an advanced one. Thebitcoinmanual.com or europeanbitcoiners or bitcoin-only.com are also nice ones. Also endthefud.org is a nice collection of articles.
2 nice visualizing sites: he doesnt have to read it, you need to bring an extra display and show it on that, so you can point stuff out. It can help alot.
mempool.space
bits.monospace.live
Thanks for your suggestions. As I've mentioned, he has a good understanding of blockchain technology, and knows basic stuff about bitcoin...
This makes it super nice. I provided extra explanation you could use. Does he know about hardware wallets?
Also, an economy is dependend on the honesty of its users. Bitcoin is already the most fair and neutral economical system ever created, so it is a shame if honest people ditch it in favor ofa currency controlled by corruption.
I get your points. He'd probably say that the potential disruption and chaos which would occur, should the world go from a USD standard to a bitcoin standard would generate a lot of injustice as well, simply due to the fact that bitcoin is not evenly distributed, but has a high concentration on relatively few hands...
But in the proofof work model, this money has to flow to the productive side of the economy, the working class.
with fiat, there is no guarantee for this, because rich people can bend the rules and force people to reverse transactions or to pay money to the government. With bitcoin this is impossible, possibly opening new chapters in africa
And the simple "the more people use it, the more more people it takes to disrupt the price. Aka more adoption and more usage is lower volatility.
also the fact that the dollar is stable is because it is not a free market. it takes billions worth of dollars to absorb volatility, which either gets injected, giving companies and organizations unfair advantage, or it is absorbed from the economy by hiking taxes and interest rates,enriching themselves.
Great points
Also, war gets funded by inflation.
But first, start studying privacy related to bitcoin. bitcoiner.guide and bitcoin-only are good summaries for that.
Yes, bitcoiner.guide is a great place to learn. I also like the philosophical approach that nostr:npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpchas on bitcoin. To me also understanding the relationship between bitcoin and physical reality was an important step on my journey: because bitcoin is tied to physical reality, you can't just magically change it because you have power or fiat money...
