Why back in the days, Presently 70 percent of the world still believes that. This is after knowing about Bitcoin. I had asked one of my friend few days back about investing in Bitcoin and the answer that I got was the same. There is still lot to be done for mass adoption. I can see many new initiative but still it is not enough.

What can we do to make other understand Bitcoin?

1. We can participate in other non Cryptocurrency forum and initiate a conversation about Bitcoin
2. We can start a Blog on Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency
3. Talk to friends whenever there is a get together or a casual meeting
4. Organize a Blockchain and Bitcoin conference at a local school or a college.

Some of us may be shy to talk to others as we fear negative reply. Just talk to them and if they are okay to hear explain them more.

OP, that was not ignorance.  Most people are immediately pessimistic about new things, even more when they do not understand the technology. It was also a time when projects like this was done in the dark corners of the Internet and when everything was hush hush. 

A lot of people got arrested for creating their own currencies back in the day, so some pessisim should have been expected. So, be honest.. would you have reacted any different if it was you back then? 

Good question, maybe that individual is still leaving under the mom's basement and banging his computer screen for ridiculing bitcoin.  . But seriously, who wouldn't have thought that after 10 years, bitcoin still lives and the price could go as high as $20k a pop in 2017.

People only need to be subjective in reading and seeing the news. If not, they will be carried away with assumptions made by the media and look like fools. In today's modern era, everyone should have the opportunity to be smarter, easier.

yah! those were the dark times for bitcoin. I first saw the coin in 2011 and by that time it has actually grown pretty popular (at least I saw it first on discovery channel). I don't think there was anything which me(14year old boy) hated about this new system. I found the concept very amazing and when the host said how he lost his coins because he lost his private keys I know exactly what level of security it is (but I don't know how cryptography works at that time).

Close minded people maybe. They are keptical about anything that doesn't fit in their ideal world, and we have seen how gold bugs still can't fathom the idea of why Bitcoin can and already works as gold.

I have always been open to changes and improvements, and this is how it should be. I immediately saw value in Bitcoin because of how it allowed me to store value outside the legacy banking system that's corrupted to its core.

Gold allows you to do the same, but it lags behind in almost every possible way when you put it against Bitcoin. Bitcoin picks up where gold stopped providing usefulness as money in the current digital age.

These are two types of people's reaction about Bitcoin before and this will define if they're successful now or not.
We can't blame those who people who were doubting about Bitcoin before, even if we don't admit it, we had that kind of reactions before as well.
But Bitcoin proved us that it could develop to a great digital currency which exceeds beyond all our expectations.

They may sound skeptical or curious but we can understand that because we are just like that if we know nothing of a new project.
Critics are always there when we don't know what its capable of but look at Bitcoin today, i never imagine them not investing in it these days.

Very true. But at least joining in this forum is a good start for them to look at crypto in a different perspective. Only a matter of time, these noobs will become a true crypto enthusiast. At one point in our lives, we started from that notion also. It is not the case that we fully embrace crypto the first day that we hear about bitcoin or crypto, right? So give those people a break and let them truly understand crypto on their own way at their own pace.

not necessarily this case but generally speaking skepticism is not the same as negativity. you have to be skeptic about new things you see, specially when you see something like that which may have looked like money out of thin air on the internet at first look. but automatically being negative is to be extreme and that is only the case with naive people who jump to conclusion without research. and in some cases with those who want to spread FUD.