My today seems to have been a day dedicated to this topic. This evening my mate told me that "bitcoin needs to get easier"... I might have bitten his head off.
All the memes come to mind: "I discovered bitcoin and I'm here to fix it", "you don't change bitcoin, it changes you" and "you get Bitcoin at the price you deserve".
The issue is that we are pushing bitcoin, and with good intentions too, but it isn't self motivated. The moment you are self motivated, I've seen and heard about tradesmen and computer illiterate people learning how to run a bitcoin node and operate the CLI (although that part is already easier).
I think many will custody their bitcoin to banks, and there will be rugs. Those rugs will be downplayed, they'll be socialised, people will accept it, but I am hopeful that it won't last long.
People need to be motivated to understand bitcoin and the best motivation is when the money is dogshit and all of your neighbors are using bitcoin and doing better than you.
That might be too late for you and your family from YOUR perspective, but it happens when it happens. You may set them up with a cold-card and they make all the mistakes because they're operating with one eye closed, taking shortcuts so they can get on with what they think is more important to them.
Look, we can do our best to prepare people and nudge the timeline, but we can't make people care about something they don't think is worth their time and effort.
I'm still positive because adoption is happening and fiat is failing and people are waking. I genuinely believe that people are not instinctually sheep, we are instinctually copycats and social beings. We don't want free hand outs because we're greedy and lazy, it's because everyone else has it, and it's normal to want it.
I believe if everyone around you is taking responsibility for themselves, you'll want to do it too. Right now, when someone sees you doing well, they'll want that too, but they won't want to do the work, no one else is doing work, doing work is not "normal". When you tell someone about something, they might dismiss you or ignore you, but when they keep hearing it from different people, they change their attitude.
We, Bitcoiners, are tiny in a vast of people, but we are growing and I'm positive about it. Last meme: "everyone who starts to understand our broken system becomes a doomer and has a bleak outlook, bitcoiners are positive because we see the solution and we use that positivity to build hope and advance the solution."
