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50 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 14h \ parent \ on: I Fumbled My Brief Orange Pilling Chance bitcoin

answer something simple and quick

Yeah, this. But I think your answer is still too many confusing things at once.

For example, this is what I think would go through somebody with negative knowledge about bitcoin or bitcoin-adjacent things:

you don't need a bank or a company in the middle

What's good about that?

no one controls it, no one can censor it

So it's money for criminals?

it works 24/7 for anyone

I can also send transactions 24/7 online with my bank account

It's as if you were your own bank.

I don't want to be my own bank. That sounds hard.

I think I would simply answer this to "so, is it like Venmo or PayPal?"

Yes, but there are no Terms of Service

Nobody likes Terms of Service.

And I think "Yes, but ..." works better because it makes them feel like they already kind of got it.

And to be honest, most people's experience with Bitcoin should be like Venmo or PayPal anyway, because it "just works." They never had to worry about anything else.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @guerratotal 13h

Thinking about it like that, you're right... I think in the end it happened to me like it did to Siggy, from another perspective sometimes it's better not to open a thread of complex concepts, but rather connect from the familiar and sow a seed of curiosity.