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Originally Posted by crucifissio
you would be surprised at how many people do not know how to use it...during the 90-s my country was under embargo, no money could go in or out so I relied heavily on stuff like evocash/egold/1mdc/liberty reserve etc...these were even easier to fund than bitcoin but the bottom line was: most customers do not care to invest 5 min in research...using offshore CC processing and paypal my sales went up 10x...
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nah.... I am under no illusions that most people don't know how to use it - like you said, most people don't want to spend 5 minutes (if they are someone who has worked online for years), or 20 minutes - I am truly a tech idiot, I cannot overstate that, yet a tiny bit of research a year or two ago let me buy some btc fairly easily.
My comparison with paypal was: in the early days most people could not be bothered to spend that same 5 minutes... yet that didn't stop paypal from becoming what it is. I'm not saying btc WILL become that; but it won't fail because a webmaster, or some grandma, wasn't up to speed with it and/or how to source some
This is still the very early stages of crypto-currency, we may feel it's been around a long time as webmasters, and being fairly up to date with things like this, but this is one of those ground floor things... whether it'll be btc or another format/development (likely), banking won't be the same in 20 years time as it is now. The question is, how do we profit currently. The answer is not: by not even taking 5 minutes to see where to buy some btc then dismissing the whole 'crazy notion' as a lot here seem to be doing.