To understand bitcoin you should have some basic understanding of money and economics. If you can understand how gold has been used as a store of value for thousands of years, and why millions of people and countries all over the world invest in gold, then bitcoin is very easy to grasp. Bitcoin is simply the modern digital form of gold, with qualities that make it an improvement over gold.



The US dollar as well as all fiat currencies lose value over time. That is why people invest in gold because gold usually retains its value over time, and so does bitcoin.
The dollar has lost  over 99% of its value over the last hundred years. But that is over a hundred year period, so the impact is somewhat softened and not felt so drastically by the average American, but imagine if you live in a country where the value of the currency is dropping by 20, 30, or even 50 per cent or more in just one year. Like has happened in Turkey, Argentina, Lebanon, and many others.

When living in such countries, trust me you will learn to appreciate the value of bitcoin very quickly. That explains why 30% of people in Turkey own bitcoin, one of the highest rates of adoption in the world. Why? Because it is impossible to save up for anything when half the value of your money is vanishing before your eyes within a year or two.

In this life, not everything is easy to understand for you, but having determination and a mindset can help to achieve what you want in life. Starting something new can be difficult sometimes, especially when you don't know much about it; however, once you are eager to learn, it becomes easier. This applies to Bitcoin; if you are new to it, for you to understand how it works, it may seem difficult, but being part of a community like this forum is a great first step. You can take your time to read, learn, and ask questions where you seem to have difficulty and need more clarification.

Even if you have an interest in investing in Bitcoin, it will be a good idea if you have ideas about how it works.

Bitcoin is open for everyone. However, you cannot access what you did not understand. In short, learn to know first on the basics of bitcoin, how to acquire bitcoin and how to create a safety and secured wallet for it, that way it will be easily access by its owner every time he plans to buy and sell.

Bitcoin is never difficult if you take time to understand its technicalities and fundamentals. Although it's quite complicated for beginners, but with time and patience, you will find it easily accessible.

I agree, to transact a d use Bitcoin on a daily or regular basis in terms of sending, receiving,
buying, selling and HODL'ing its dead simple, just like everything there is a "getting to
know" period and after that its second nature.

Does everyone need to know how to program, test for bugs, develop new applications
and such? absolutely not, that side of Bitcoin is for the majority of us is indeed very
difficult to understand.

If you aren't a cryptographer or programmer than yeah sure bitcoin is difficult to understand, even if you are, it's difficult to understand. 

The first book I ever read was "Mastering Bitcoin" by Andreas Antonopoulos, which is definitely made for programmers and not people like myself.

Now was makes Andreas Antonopoulos so special is his ability to make bitcoin understandable to the "average" person.  Look up his YouTube page as well as read his book "Internet of Money" and I think those struggling to grasp the concept will be able to do so much more simplistically.

What makes you say bitcoin is difficult because for now with the ease of the internet with lots of sources to learn then everything will be easy if we are really serious about learning it.

On the other hand, it may definitely take time to understand the mechanism and study bitcoin properly but that doesn't mean it's difficult because in the end it depends on our efforts in deepening and studying it so in this case there is nothing difficult I think but whether we want to learn well about bitcoin or not.

We don't need to be a professional developer or be in a certain department to learn bitcoin because in the end it depends on our own abilities, the problem is whether you want to try to learn it or not because of a certain degree or department when you don't want to learn about bitcoin in the end they still won't understand and it's right to say this is difficult because they don't want to try to be in it.

I agree with you, despite being in 2025 now. Bitcoin is still not user friendly while being slow and expensive. Other cryptos are also hard to understand but they offer more advanced features like smart contracts. And their layer2 networks are as simple as a common blockchain while LN add new complexity to Bitcoin instead of simplifying it.

Bitcoin isn’t difficult to access, provided that you have understood already what bitcoin is and how to create bitcoin transactions. Although I wouldn’t deny that bitcoin topics may create confusion to others, but that’s because they don’t understand what bitcoin is. Bitcoin is not complicated and is easy to access, but it’s only the people who have no sufficient knowledge in bitcoin that are making it hard and complicated.

i get why bitcoin seems complicated but have you ever tried using it? Most wallets and exchanges do all the technical work for you so you dont have to deal with coding or complex processes. If you're open to it, i'd love to hear what exactly feels difficult.

To some Bitcoin is too technical for them to understand, but what I have noticed with them is that sometimes they are mostly newbies who are just getting into Bitcoin and are too anxious to know things that are way above their capacity at that level, and instead of taking it slow and steady they want to rush things and when it hard to comprehend at such a past, they make such statement as Bitcoin is too hard to understand or Bitcoin is too technical for them, but the reality is that they have not taken the right approach towards Bitcoin knowledge building. If you want to get the best out of Bitcoin, you need to handle it with a more relaxed mindset and needless rush things.