Bitcoin is now more popular compare to 2017, many who called bitcoin a scam have no more reason to keep saying so even when they failed to do their own research, they don't have a reason to call it a scam anymore, even President Trump is now all over it.
Which makes me believe that gone are those days where you are actually helping to create awareness by hosting some gathering or visiting a local school nearby to teach about Bitcoin and the blockchain.
I did this few times in the past but I had more bad experience than good, I ended up creating more enemies for myself than I hoped for, my job was quit easy but my fellow country men and women have their own ways of digesting words and lessons.
Today I have people who don't talk to me anymore and I believe the fault was never mine, I did my part very well, I warned them about software wallets and how they can consider electrum for a time being.
Three of them got their wallet compromised, one lost his bitcoin to a wrong address, I guess clipboard hijacking, these aren't just people, they are friends and family member, but there is one who did all the necessary things and still a holder till date, I wish I can turn back the hands of time and never sit anyone down to teach them anything.
I look like super hero because Trump is supporting Bitcoin, if kamala won the election and the news was Bitcoin had to go, they would have come for me because it looks like they are waiting for such day to come.
What about you? Any regrets?
Yea you are right, alot of people trying to introduce bitcoin to their friends or well wishers back in the days got embarrassed because they felt bitcoin was a scam and they don't want to hear about it, since they have been involved in alot of Ponzi scams, so their trust has been chartered and don't even know who to trust anymore, because this was done to them by close relatives, not an outsider.
I was also a victim of such embarrassment severally, even till now they still believes bitcoin is going to crash mainly now that the price is dropping daily, so I rest my case and watch, but still trying my best for those that are ready to listen and accept that Bitcoin is real and has come to stay. The regrets are so much but life goes on , and for the wide spreading of bitcoin globally I still keep trying