If someone says that they are fine with bitcoin but would prefer gold or real estate, then that's fine and there is nothing wrong with that. But, if a person says that they "hate" bitcoin and they think it's a scam and that's why they prefer gold or real estate, that's a problem. The reason is that in one of them they do not care about us and just want to invest into something different and there is nothing wrong with that, all the good on them.

However on the other they are hating it and trying to put a bad name out there for bitcoin, basically trying to hurt us if they can influence any people. There are some big name investors and those whales end up saying some bad stuff about bitcoin, which isn't acceptable to me and I think it should be important to note that we are talking about something that's quite hurting on the long term.

We should be focusing on how they are hurting the market by saying these bad things, and whales are even worse because they have influence since they are whales. This is why preferring something else is fine, but hating on bitcoin should be stopped or at least we do not have to respect it and could tell something to them about it in order to stop them hating it.

I call it unfair competition, some people do not invest in bitcoin and are spreading false information to lower the reputation of bitcoin. I do not support those things, but I will not argue with them because we cannot force them to shut up and I believe that with the development of social networks today, everyone will know what is the truth. Lying to people is not easy these days because every information is available on the internet.

Additionally, many bitcoin investors are also trying to spread the word and badmouth other assets or investments to make bitcoin shine. If you condemn those who spread negative things about bitcoin, you should also condemn bitcoin investors who are badmouthing other assets because that is also unfair competition and creates even greater conflict.

There is nothing we can do about it because all they need is awareness and the internet already has enough information for them to be self aware of this fact that our bitcoins lie in our hands.
It's only because we made a mistake in securing our coins that our coins get stolen.
Yes, we need to be tech savvy enough to secure our bitcoin and this is the only challenge in holding bitcoin.
Not everyone is knowledgable enough to have a tight security.

In addition to lack of knowledge, you should also mention greed, if they don't have the greed to get rich quickly, even if they lack knowledge, they won't be easily fooled. So the main cause is people's greed, not necessarily ignorance, IMO.

There are hundreds of traps labeled as bitcoin to scam people, there are many cases where they directly invested in bitcoin but because they could not withstand its volatility, they sold it at a loss. But they still blame bitcoin as a scam and stubbornly refuse to admit that it is due to their greed. In short, those who call bitcoin a scam are greedy, stubborn and ignorant.

I find gold to be beautiful. Always had. There's something about its shine, its history... its a winner. Real estate? With bricks and mortar, you cannot make mistakes. These are trustworthy, physical things. But you know what else I love? Winning. And Bitcoin, people, that is where the future is headed. I see other people. Bitcoin is new. That is different. Not everyone will find it interesting. But when big shots start calling it a "scam," thats just plain wrong. They're not just protecting their old money investments, they're holding us back.

Bitcoin is not only one more asset. It transforms everything. Its about empowering the people once more. It centres on openness. It is about eliminating the middlemen. Stop the negativity. Those folks should learn about it, understand it and then have a real conversation, not a smear campaign.

In the end, its really about choices. Your choices. And none, not even the largest whale in the tank, have the authority to advise you on how to spend your money. So, lets open our minds, folks.

I agree with you, greed is one of the reasons why most people see bitcoin has scam, apart from investing in Ponzi schemes which most scammers label has bitcoin investment so many people have lost money in the name of  investing in Bitcoin without having proper knowledge of what bitcoin investment is all about. Some has been deceived because they were wrongly advised that after investing in Bitcoin within the next few weeks they will be able to have a double of  their capital but not understanding the market they will rather sell and take loss when the price of Bitcoin is down.

Some of the people who also see Bitcoin as evil have been fooled by some scammers using free airdrop, they get people to invest in a token in the name of Bitcoin but when it is time to make profit they will find out that they have been fooled by scammers a long time again.

In any financial market or even in our lives , there are hundreds of traps created to scam people, there are hundreds of reasons people give to justify every time they are scammed . But after all , if we are not greedy and control our greed, it will be very difficult to be deceived by others and fall into others' traps.

If people are aware and restrain their greed, they will not rush to invest in any project without fully understanding it . I believe that no one will lose money and scams will gradually disappear . Scam comes from our greed, we should not blame anyone or anything when our greed is not under control .

Yes, most people will not be interested to listen to you if you wanna introduce them to such investment because they will see it as a waste of time since you didn't tell them that they will double the amount they want to invest in the next few minutes or hours. Scammers seems to understand how to get their victims faster because they know that with sweet lies and money doubling strategy they will easily get the attention of people especially the poor because they are the ones that mostly want a fast money making investment.

Personally, I cannot advise anyone to go into any short term investment without proper investigation to know if the business is real or fake but right now in the world scammers are more than genuine people and once they approach you with their mouth watering offers the poor with their greedy mindset will mostly be attracted to invest but at the end they will cry out loud.

Even for long term investment, everyone who wants to start any investment that they wanna get in is they need to do their own research.

We highly advise people to make their own research and due diligence before they invest. Not just because everyone is holding Bitcoin, that's the reason they will buy it but no.

It does make more sense if they're going to make themselves a favor by doing that. Because if they do, that's for their sake and not for everyone else.

For some, they don’t see the reason why they should be all embracing of this new system to finance. These are persons that are so deep into the traditional way of going about their lives that, they don’t really want to change, the old system does serve them well so why should they switch.
Well, the reason why anyone would ever switch or see the need for a switch is always going to come out of a self convincing reason. It’s always cool when you let them find out because, doubt is always out of the question in these times. One who doesn’t doubt is often met by something big.