The biggest impedient to using bitcoin... Is that people don't know what it is.
It would be like walking up to random people on the street and saying 'do you use Linux?' In some parts of the country in certain specific places... the people would know what you are talking about.
But it would be a completely random question... And they would have no idea why you are asking about Linux or why they should even talk with you.
Outside of a university campus compsci department you would just look like a weirdo.
And the vast majority of people across the country in 'regular' places I mean like 99%... They have no idea what you are talking about.
Now walk up to random people across the country, using that same analogy, and ask them about QubesOS. That's what asking people about 'lightning' is today.
If they don't know what Linux is or why they should care, much less why they should want to talk with you, they won't know anything about qubes and I guarantee you they won't know anything about Lightning either. (They are on a similar adoption level).
If they don't know how to pay in bitcoin, they have never heard of lightning, don't know that a bitcoin payment can even be made (frankly), how exactly will they transact in bitcoin? They don't know any of this.
How many advertisements do you see for bitcoin? Zero. How many for bitcoin payments in the real world? Zero.
You can't walk through an airport without seeing ads for perfumes purses and watches but how many for bitcoin? Zero.
Bitcoin has an educational problem today and in a big way and I don't know how we overcome that. I'm not sure that ideology and the 'technology' is enough.
I am still optimistic of course but there is a possibility that the long-term potential just slips through our fingers.
The biggest impedient to using bitcoin... Is that people don't know what it is.
It would be like walking up to random people on the street and saying 'do you use Linux?' In some parts of the country in certain specific places... the people would know what you are talking about.
But it would be a completely random question... And they would have no idea why you are asking about Linux or why they should even talk with you.
Outside of a university campus compsci department you would just look like a weirdo.
And the vast majority of people across the country in 'regular' places I mean like 99%... They have no idea what you are talking about.
Now walk up to random people across the country, using that same analogy, and ask them about QubesOS. That's what asking people about 'lightning' is today.
If they don't know what Linux is or why they should care, much less why they should want to talk with you, they won't know anything about qubes and I guarantee you they won't know anything about Lightning either. (They are on a similar adoption level).
If they don't know how to pay in bitcoin, they have never heard of lightning, don't know that a bitcoin payment can even be made (frankly), how exactly will they transact in bitcoin? They don't know any of this.
How many advertisements do you see for bitcoin? Zero. How many for bitcoin payments in the real world? Zero.
You can't walk through an airport without seeing ads for perfumes purses and watches but how many for bitcoin? Zero.
Bitcoin has an educational problem today and in a big way and I don't know how we overcome that. I'm not sure that ideology and the 'technology' is enough.
I am still optimistic of course but there is a possibility that the long-term potential just slips through our fingers.