Oddbean new post about login | logout Did you immediately jump in and buy bitcoin when first presented with the information? I didn't. It took repeat exposures from different sources. Even if none of the audience goes out and buys bitcoin immediately after this talk, it serves as an exposure. And coming from someone like Lyn, I imagine they probably perceive bitcoin to be more legitimate than prior to the talk. These things take time and this particular audience has a lot of inertia tied up in the existing system based on the description of atendees. Would you just prefer no one bothers to give presentations on bitcoin's potential if it isn't certain to lead to immediate increases in adoption?
How many more presentations does everyone need Saylor Keiser Lyn Foss Etc There are over 1 million hours of logged #bitcoin and economy is bad blogs, videos, type and in book form hundreds Yes I researched Bitcoin in December 2016 and bought Feb 2017… guess what… we didn’t have any of this conference and video “Bitcoin is smart” help And our guys here did it anyway… at some point u just have to get on with it There is enough info repeated daily to educate the population 50 times over…. How much more talk does everyone need?? If you’re new it’s all easy to find in multitudes …. It’s been done.. 2021 all the good wholeheartedly information was delivered and 100 x since then At some point …. It just becomes a support group reassuring u you made the right decision I’ve got a lot of old skool bitcoiners 10 years or so all saying the same INTEGRATION TIME!! Time for talk is over, she wrote a book, she’s done umpteen interviews… going over ground you’ll find causes confusion and turns people away Too much unneeded info is never good Bitcoin is basic and simple Stop complicating it Debt bad + Bitcoin 21m hard cap backed by math and it’s perfect money + Here is 3 or 4 interviews + Buy = Easy!!!
'Here are some videos' is not as compelling as an in person talk, especially for people in the boomer bracket. Perhaps one could argue that the concept of diminishing returns applies to new recorded Bitcoin content, but to try to argue that the same applies to in person lectures is IMO retarded.
In person talk leads to buy my book and subscribe to my channel Well while conferences are at all time highs and books / videos Education seems to be at all time lows… how many “bitcoiners” still hold their coins on exchanges?? Sadly from what our team has seen… the vast majority These conferences don’t seem to help Self custody Lightning usage Peer 2 peer Beating the hedge funds Etc All I hear is 21m hardest money ever in different pretty words But hey if people need it all at snail education speed by all means enjoy the repeated talks I just hope you at-least learned self custody
From what it sounds like, the talk wasn't aimed at established Bitcoiners (who are the more appropriate audience for the topics you mentioned). It sounds like a more fundamental 'here are some problems with the existing system of which you are a part, and here's how Bitcoin is uniquely suited to address those problems'. Perhaps it's hard for you to empathize with noobs because you've been in the space a long time, but these concepts are still going to be alien to people who haven't considered them, especially if they've been long successful in the legacy system.
Empathise with noobs Here’s is something I either get told nobody is interested or don’t want to hear 2023 Opened lightning economy between USA and Europe of 5000 member organisations that only use Bitcoin and tether (from Australia) all new or never been bitcoiners I work with the Perth Heat and push their Bitcoin baseball programs to new people never been in bitcoin… they have a stasforstats program that gives away Bitcoin to new bitcoiners In Adelaide alone I’ve put 27 businesses to accept Bitcoin via Lightning as well as my own business has accepted Bitcoin payments since 2017 and had 7 regular weekly payers and another 8 monthly payers I show people this…. And all I cop is no one is interested in integration or people don’t want to part with Bitcoin “from the presenters of these conferences” Literally… nobody gives a shit That 5000 crew took 20 minutes to have them all transacting…. No videos No conference Literally showed them how to use Strike and boom… People are smarter than you give them credit for, maybe stop treating everyone like an idiot… because they aren’t… they’re literally interested in Bitcoin but get confused with all the content Maybe orange pill someone… you’ll learn this
Thank you for spreading Bitcoin education, it sounds like you're good at it. Still, not everyone is ready for that level of participation. The majority of people are still convinced Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme that's boiling the oceans. You have to get past those hurdles (and a lot more) before you can be open to the practical applications. Both types of education are still necessary.
Do yourself a huge biggie Head on down your local shop and suggest they accept Bitcoin… I guarantee u you’ll be surprised they’ll be infinitely curious My strike rate on pilling since I went just on offering or direct is near 100% I think you’ll not only spend some good orange… but utilise your precious time in Bitcoin with winning Do yourself another favour… sounds like you’ve heard enough about Bitcoin… you seem like Orange pill good guy Go do some real bitcoining with good people… sure point people at the conferences if you like… start taking the next step Lead some people… Trust me 🤝
I like your style and what you're saying! 99% of bitcoiners are comfortably lurking on social media and podcasts. Consuming endless amounts of Bitcoin porn in their cushy bubble. Myself included. So your call to action is appreciated. I'll see what I can do.
This is appealing. Can you please list the specific tools and resources you use to orange pill businesses and individuals? 🙏😃 I'd love to see a local circular economy take off.
@DWOLFBTC TLDR: publishing "new" content (that repeats known/documented stuff) over and over again is necessary, if you want people to see your topic In a way I want to agree with you, that the info is already out there in millions of texts/videos/podcasts .. so it wouldn't be absolutely necessary to regurgitate it all perpetually, just adding more redundancy. The internet is a vast pool of content which people COULD sift through when they're looking for answers to questions about the world, trying to understand. I guess the problem is: not that many people are actively thinking: "The monetary systems seem broken, I should go read up on the internet for hours to see if someone already found a decent solution." Many people (including me most of the time) are mostly just consuming content (without an adhoc goal behind the consumption, other than seeing something new) that passes by in timelines/feeds/streams, be it news sites, or social media or public TV/radio. Those timelines/feeds/streams almost always put "new" content as the next item to consume (instead of mixing in random old content to give it another chance at resonating). This design of feeds basically forces people who want to direct attention to a specific topic, to always fight for a share of the current timelines by continuously churning out "new" content about their topic. If you want to increase exposure of the public to a certain topic, it helps to put the topic where people will scroll past it, over and over again. As an aside: I think your typical chronological timeline/feed/stream - as obvious as it may seem - is a fundamentally flawed principle. In an abstract way it means "New is everything that matters, nothing else does." I think alternative feed compositions would be much more interesting. For example if the (mostly) chronological feed also showed random old content, the share of it being some inverse function of content age.