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was having a conversation with a co-worker (age ~50) about Bitcoin and the pure hostility and illogical hate for it is mind boggling. When someone immediately calls it "the stupidest thing in the world" and says "it's destroying the environment beyond repair" it's difficult to even attempt to reason with them and explain how they're wrong without explicitly saying it and turning them off completely to Bitcoin. 

I really just don't understand the straight up hostility and hatred people have towards something they don't understand.

The "people will believe what they want to believe" explanation is spot-on