I think that mostly people, who were lazy and impatient enough to wait for the times when Bitcoin climbs up and sold it and lost, think that it it the scam. The whole world started taking BTC as the best virtual version of the currency. It is great.

Ignorance is the main reason why a lot of people are having different view on bitcoin. But yes, the Paypal's integration of btc and other alts, may have change other's perception towards crypto. Don't bother the point of view of your friends, as later on, they will ask your assistance on how to deal with crypto. I have encountered the same also with my friends. So now, I don't mention this to them anymore unless, they will initiate the discussion.

Well based on my own conclusion people were too fascinated of having an instant profit even if they are sleeping their account were generating an income for them which is so impossible to happened in a world of cryptocurrency or even in bitcoin. Here we need to do our part to be able to get a profit, an overnight generating profit were not applicable here. That's why i can't blame those victim who being catch by the trap of scammers since it was their sweet words in attracting investors.

Since there are different forms and modes of news about bitcoin, you need to learn first what are the models and how to recognize Bitcoin scams and on the other hand each form of fraud requires different anticipation.
so you have to arm yourself with
knowledge of a specific bitcoin scam model, and all that for gullible newbies who think Bitcoin is a scam.

Too many people saying bitcoin is a scam and also dead but they dont know of whats going on in cryptocurrency there are some big happen that would be acceptedly bitcoin are using as payment and now paypal also become one of supported in bitcoin they doing a buy and sell using bitcoin, etherium or USDT and Ill think there are more positive news we heard again from bitcoin in the next year, And now the prices of bitcoin are still up many people doing trade and sell or they wanted to hold also.

Well bitcoin has grown much popular and many people have benefited from it, so I think the amount of people who thinks bitcoin is a scam is very less, because in this present time people has gotten to know the value of bitcoin and has started earning a Fortune from it, it's very obvious that the few people who thinks bitcoin is a scam, has no knowledge about bitcoin and are just being ignorant.

Having this perspective is understandable especially to those who aren't knowledgeable enough about the nature of bitcoin and the community itself. Majority of the people who don't understand how bitcoin works are the same people who think that it is a kind of scam. I can't invalidate these people's feelings as bitcoin really have a bad reputation especially to the mainstream media because of different schemes scammers are trying to connect and relate to it.

For example, there are spam messages on comment sections and even facebook groups about bitcoin saying they could earn a good amount of money in just a short span of time and they just have to pay a certain amount. Most people are easily blinded by the offer, hence, are falling to their trap, without them knowing their money is getting scammed already. And then, they will blame the entire bitcoin community. They'll start to generalize and lose trust whenever the term bitcoin is involved.

I guess we really need to have some sort of spreading bitcoin-awareness so that people won't fall for too good to be true offers and will know what could be the benefits of bitcoin on their lives.