How I Talk To Family Members About Bitcoin This Thanksgiving

By Bitcoin Majalah - 1 year ago - Waktos maca: 5 menit

How I Talk To Family Members About Bitcoin This Thanksgiving

The best way to address your family members at this year’s Thanksgiving dinner when the orange coin comes up in conversation.

This is an opinion editorial by Joakim Book, a Research Fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research, contributor and copy editor for Bitcoin Magazine and a writer on all things money and financial history.

Abdi henteu.

Éta pisan. Éta artikel.

Dina sagala ikhlas, éta pesen pinuh: Ngan ulah ngalakukeun eta. Teu patut.

Anjeun sanés rumaja anu gumbira deui, anu peryogi pisan pikeun ngagungkeun sks atanapi nyobian hikmah anu énggal anjeun. Anjeun sanés pandita da'wah kalayan jiwa anu leungit pikeun nyalametkeun pas sateuacan datangna dinten anu caket. Urang boga waktu.

Gantina: ngan ninggalkeun jalma sorangan. Serius. Aranjeunna sumping ka tuangeun sukur pikeun bersantai sareng girang sareng kulawarga, seuri, nyarioskeun carita sareng zona kaluar sadinten - henteu kedah diserang ku naon anu aranjeunna bakal disada sapertos rant deranged dina sababaraha topik anu teu jelas anu aranjeunna henteu paduli. Malah lamun éta sistem moneter, nu taya nu ngarti atoh.

Meunang nyata.

Upami anjeun henteu yakin kana pendekatan sosial Dale Carnegie-esque ieu, sareng anjeun masih naif mikir yén kecap-kecap anu sakedik anjeun di antara gigitan tiasa ngarobih pandangan saha waé ngeunaan naon waé, ieu sababaraha alesan anu langkung serius kunaon anjeun ulah talk to friends and family about Bitcoin the protocol — but most certainly not bitcoin, the asset:

Kulawarga sareng réréncangan anjeun henteu hoyong ngadangu éta. Neraskeun.

For op-sec reasons, you don’t want to draw unnecessary attention to the fact that you probably have a decent bitcoin stack. Hopefully, family and close friends should be safe enough to confide in, but people talk and that gossip can only hurt you.

Jalma mendakan bitcoin interesting only when they’re ready to; everyone meunang harga aranjeunna pantes. Siga Gigi nyebutkeun dina "21 Palajaran:"

"Bitcoin will be understood by you as soon as anjeun are ready, and I also believe that the first fractions of a bitcoin will find you as soon as you are ready to receive them. In essence, everyone will get ₿itcoin at exactly the right time.”

Teu mungkin lamun paman atanapi mitoha anjeun aya dina tahap éta, adil lamun rék diuk turun keur dinner.

Unless you can claim youth, old age or extreme poverty, there are very few people who genuinely haven’t heard of bitcoin. That means your evangelizing wouldn’t be preaching to lost, ignorant souls ready to be saved but the tired, huddled and jaded masses who could care less about the discovery that will change their societies more than the internal combustion engine, internet and Big Government combined. Big deal.

What is the case, however, is that everyone in your prospective audience has already had a couple of touchpoints and rejected bitcoin for this or that standard FUD. It’s a panipuan; sigana aneh; éta paeh; hayu urang percanten ka bank sentral, anu gaduh kapentingan anu saé.
No amount of FUD busting changes that impression, because nobody holds uninformed and fringe convictions for rational reasons, reasons that can be flipped by your enthusiastic arguments in-between wiping off cranberry sauce and grabbing another turkey slice.It really is bad form to talk about money — and bitcoin is the best money there is. Be classy.

Now, I’m not saying to never ever talk about Bitcoin. We love to talk Bitcoin — that’s why we go to meetups, join Twitter Spaces, write, code, run nodes, listen to podcasts, attend conferences. People there meunangkeun hal ngeunaan pemberontakan moneter ieu sareng parantos milih janten bagian tina éta. anggota kulawarga unsuspecting anjeun teu boga; ambushing aranjeunna kalayan keajaiban multisig, transaksi kilat magically gancang atanapi kumaha aranjeunna teuing nyaan kudu meunang kana karéta hype ieu, kawas, kamari, saperti teu mirip turun ogé.

Nanging, upami nalika tuangeun tuangeun di teras teras aya anu sumping ka anjeun hiji-hiji, wiski dina panangan sareng pikiran anu panasaran, éta carita anu béda pisan. Éta pribadi tinimbang umum, sareng éta tanpa kendala waktos anu biasana ngaganggu urang. Ieu ngalibatkeun klarifikasi patarosan atanapi mamang pikeun batur anu duanana ekspresif panasaran ngeunaan topik na sadia pikeun ngobrol. Éta jarang - hargana, sareng piara.

Taun ka tukang kuring nulis hal ngeunaan peran pulitik ditangtoskeun paguneman dina setting sosial. Kusabab Nopémber ogé bulan pamilihan, éta pantes disebatkeun di dieu:

"Pulitik, kuring mimiti percaya, anu pangsaéna aya dina pacilingan - diganti deui sareng dibawa kaluar pikeun kasempetan anu khusus. Atanapi panginten pangkeng, sareng anu paling dipercaya, dipikacinta, sareng hormat. Teu di tempat umum, teu jeung strangers, teu jeung babaturan, jeung paling pasti moal jeung jalma séjén di masarakat Anjeun. Ngabersihan tina mahluk anjeun saloba mungkin, sarta nolak ngantep isu pulitik narajang wewengkon kahirupan urang nu urang cherish; politik sareng teu satuju politik teu aya di dinya, sareng kahirupan urang penting teuing pikeun ngantepkeun aranjeunna dikuasai ku kaayaan teu satuju (kalobaannana contrived).

If anything, those words seem more true today than they even did then. And I posit to you that the same applies for bitcoin.

Everyone has some sort of impression or opinion of bitcoin — and most of them are plain wrong. But there’s nothing people love more than a savior in white armor, riding in to dispel their errors about some thing they are freshly out of fucks for. Just like politics, nobody really cares.

Leave them alone. They will find bitcoin in their own time, just like all of us did.

Ieu tulisan tamu ku Joakim Book. Pamadegan dikedalkeun sagemblengna sorangan sarta teu merta ngagambarkeun pamadegan BTC Nyarita atawa Bitcoin majalah.

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