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Originally Posted by BlackCrayon
if it were so easy to buy and hold coins that anyone with basically no computer knowledge could it, that would help a lot. i also think that having to deal in fractions of a coin puts people off too. i still have no idea how to buy coins and i am on the computer 8-10 hours a day, every day. it needs to be easier and have more established services that people already trust get in on it.
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think of it a bit like paypal... back in 2001 - 2002 or so when I got online I was selling shit on ebay (also nothing compared to what it is today). Paypal was a few hoops to jump through, you had to wrap your brain around it slightly if you weren't used to an online payment provider, link your bank account, and so on. Even now, you can't open a paypal account "with basically no computer knowledge". Thing is though, we are heading toward a world where "...basically no computer knowledge" is going to be an obsolete phrase.
btc: link your 'bank account' = your btc wallet
so where you'd set up a bank account (to link to paypal) = set up a 'bank account' called a wallet at blockchain.info
from there it's as easy as going to localbitcoins.com and buying whatever $ amount of btc you want from a seller (as with any seller on or offline you check their credentials ie their feedback), once they release into your localbitcoins.com account you transfer it to your main 'bank account' ie blockchain.info btc wallet (think of it as sort code and account number).
I can understand a 70 year old woman not getting how to buy btc, but your post - and no offence - shows that you haven't even done 5 minutes of research into how to buy a bitcoin, so are dismissing the whole thing based on your own lack of reading. It might well crash and die a painful death, but not because you don't know how to buy some
