Yes the vast majority of the public either doesn't know what Bitcoin is or thinking it is something negative.


Usually they think:
1. It's bad for the environment (it isn't, its actual a huge benefit)
2. It's a scam or pyramid scheme ponzi or some other scheme the don't know the actual definition of
3. It's outdated tech (lol)
4. It's only good for criminals
5. It'll just be banned
6. It's a bubble (and they apparently don't know its been through several market cycles)
7. It's something people lose money on it's going to zero (lol facepalm)



I think I hit all the major misconceptions negative views.


How do we fix these. Simple: education! There is so much misinformation about Bitcoin passed around by people who don't have a clue about it and those people greatly outnumber the people who are actually educated on Bitcoin. We as a community need very good very public educational resources to point people to. As more and more people get educated on Bitcoin eventually the momentum will swing in favor of education instead of misinformation. But we're a very long way from that. It would of course help if some big people in media and politics were educated on Bitcoin and could spread the world. As currently its the government that is engaging in the next big attack on Bitcoin.

People are usually resistant to changing their minds about an invention once they have formed an opinion about it. When there are so many negative scenarios and comments about bitcoin as a result of the backlash it has received, convincing someone with a preconceived notion about how they view it will be difficult. Let the good news about it spread; hopefully, in the future, it will supersede and counter the negative feedback and views about it, and it will be adopted as legal tender globally.

We don't, we just let them discover what bitcoin is, what benefits they can get from it and see how it goes for it. It's going to be difficult to turn someone perspective not just to bitcoin but in any other aspects in our lives, it is what it is. They either will have to believed on it or not.

Even Satoshi himself said this:


We can tell anyone that is the positive or even negative things about bitcoin and let them decide for themselves if they want to join the bandwagon or not. Just like what we are seeing right now, there is a banking crisis or even during the height of Covid-19. We don't tell people the get their money out and put into bitcoin because the bank is failing or to hedge their wealth on it because there is pandemic.

It takes time for people to have the better understanding about Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. It is well known fact that negative news spread faster than the real news happening around. In such a way bitcoin isn't an exception. The failure of bitcoin takes place from the users who have missed profiting because of their own mistakes. Once after the loss, they start spreading negative things and they never accept their fault.

If a thing is good, it doesn't need convincing. Internet enthusiasts didn't need to convince the general population to start using the Internet. Television, automobile, trains, planes, radio, electricity too. Every invention had people who doubted it, but they didn't succeed because someone convinced people about their benefits. Those that succeeded just clearly demonstrated that they are superior to the previous technology. Bitcoin can't do the same with banks and fiat currency.

Never mind but it doesn't matter what others think about bitcoin what matters is you and your perspective on bitcoin. It is used for money laundering and the crypto market is used in the black market, all these are just things to say to those who can't afford it and understand what technology it is they use these lame excuses. Scirty hate those things which they can't understand & control. So be confident about the positive impacts and stay with it.

When these people will realize you will be superior to them because you recognized the true financial freedom before them. At that time you can ask about the stupidity that these people use to say when it was in struggling age.

You have seem try to change the people stance which I think is hard for you to do if don't have great knowledge about bitcoin. I did on past when try to change my friend think about bitcoin. because i don't have the knowledge much some time ago, then I stuck to continue in what do i say next when I asking the crucial question. The important key is knowledge, if only have half then your work will be worthless.

It would change thier minds if their government itself is regulating it and not putting negative thoughts about BTC. And then the media will follow once they see its legal to use BTC in the country.

Bitcoin is almost there though. You can see more people right now already knows BTC or any other crypto. There is no negative news about it anymore but coming from governments are regulators.

if according to my assumption, if someone is looking for information about bitcoin, whether it's through videos or reading references, it means that there is already a curiosity about bitcoin, and usually this curiosity arises for several reasons.
that is

        - because heard that someone (friend, other person, or relative) experienced big profits and those big profits were obtained from bitcoin investment results. Usually, if you hear news like this, some people who are curious will immediately find out what bitcoin is.
        - The second one is the opposite of the information above, if the information above is curious because someone is experiencing profits, now this one is the opposite, which is curious when I hear that someone has suffered a big loss and the loss came from investing in bitcoin.
       - the third is accidental, sometimes not a few people know bitcoin by accident, whether it's when opening a website, or passing on the social media.

people in the 3 point criteria above are likely to look for information about bitcoin on various platforms or websites. here is the important point, if only the news that was first seen was good about bitcoin, it would definitely have a good impact, but what about when the first search about bitcoin was presented with oblique news about bitcoin, of course there were 2 possibilities that would happen, if people who saw the information This negative is people who are curious because at first they see the news about the benefits they get from bitcoin, of course the question will arise, "why is this like this" and will definitely look for other information.
but when those who read this information are curious people because at first they saw someone's loss from bitcoin, they will definitely stop here.
then if the person reading this information is someone who initially accidentally knows bitcoin, chances are they will stop or look for information again, it depends on how curious they are.

This is just my assumption, please let me know if I'm not quite right or wrong

I wouldn't deny if most people are interested with Bitcoin is because of making profit. They will be happy when they have making profit, but when it goes opposite and they're suffering losses, this time it will depends on each person.

They can be mad, angry, regret, cry etc but if they're not want to learn about what's Bitcoin and how Bitcoin price movement like that, they will not trust Bitcoin. Understanding about Bitcoin is the most important point to change people's perspective.