To spark your friends' interest in Bitcoin, instead of imposing economic theories on them, show them practical, frequently used use cases, such as fast money transfers without bank or third-party permissions, and low-fee payments for services they already use. When they see the advantages of Bitcoin over traditional banks, everything will change for them.

However, not everyone has a high level of financial literacy and is swayed by traditional media like TV and some influencers who speak negatively about Bitcoin. No one can completely dismiss the best existing economic technology that BTC leads, not even renowned detractors like Warren Buffett or Peter Schiff, who, despite their criticisms, continue to follow BTC.

Most people who hate BTC do so because they think they've missed their chance to acquire it, given its fluctuating prices around $63-$64K. Most simply don't understand satoshis, divisibility, or the dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy, hence the frustration.

Naturally, perception in like manner must exist, all puzzle is normal, what ever that involved money must have all negative and positive impact which may come from media and public in general, as crypto enthusiast all matter most is the limit you have to reached through your understanding and what you hope futuristically will help override some negative impression, many expectations has been turned down, some crypto lords believe the system will move as speed of light as Donald trump's take over following some body signal but don't work out. In adoption perspective, information level to booster and drop many individual adoption both some organization are not properly passed most time by media as most social media influencer are the courses of the failure all this contribute where perception like this title will be inevitable but understanding the wave direction through good knowledge will encourage crypto lover to stand firm.

Bitcoin started as a legit thing, it did not scam anyone, it was decentralized, so don't say it was started as something that was illegal, because it was not. It was associated with that stuff later when it became famous and when everyone started to hear about it. The agencies and authorities called it a tool for money laundering because they could not control it, they could not know with their old analytical tools who was sending these coins to whom, and that's why tax evasion would have been easier, which they were mostly concerned about.

Although many reports have shown bitcoin is not the best choice for money laundering, it was still given a bad image by those who wanted fiat or gold to remain the number one choice, but with time they failed to do so, and the fact that they eventually came around to Bitcoin itself is evidence that they were wrong and Bitcoin was not illegal.

Most people are negatively influenced by a couple of associations:

First, the general idea that Bitcoin is a hyper-speculative asset. This comes above all from the crap that many crypto influencers communicate, that Bitcoin will "go to millions of dollars" and make you rich quick if you follow "my exact strategy". I think even people like Adam Back (who undoubtly has merits) are not helpful with their extreme predictions.

Then, the association with people like Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and Saylor with his "wonky" communication is also not really helping. These people are immensely unpopular in 90% of all countries.

And finally the general sentiment about the altcoin market with its scammers and ICO hypes. For people not knowing about the differences with Bitcoin it is difficult to separate both. They're all "crypto" ...

How to improve that? My recommendations would be:

- don't laugh about "nocoiners". That just looks cult-like. And nobody knows if Bitcoin will still make anybody rich who is investing now.
- unfollow all of these crap influencers and clarify to everybody that "they're not Bitcoin". (They're simply people who want to make money with low effort, and they would jump on every topic.)
- clarify that Trump is also just a politician who wants to use Bitcoin and crypto (trump coin) for his own benefit. Nobody can prevent that, but we can prevent voting them or giving them attention.
- if someone shows a minimum level of interest, take your time to explain that censorship resistance (Bitcoin's main solution to a real problem) is not only an advantage for criminals. It helps everybody against several threats, for example: authoritarian tendencies of the State, thieves and hackers (see the anti-KYC thread) and greedy companies who want your payment data to offer services like insurance.

Indeed, the stability of this top cryptocurrency is founded on the credibility of it is decentralized network, which is not anchored on the concomitant acknowledgment of all strata of society. The unwillingness to adopt technological innovations is a typical characteristic in the history of the adoption of new financial systems. This ecosystem will further expand and establish itself, independent of others in the global digital economy as long as its technical support, efficiency in transactions, and the active participation of its users go on.

But we can't deny the fact that when it talks about bitcoin, most of it still link to bitcoin as a get-rich-quick scheme.

However, I'm already immune about the negative narratives of bitcoin, and it does not affect me anymore unlike before. I just chose to prioritize bitcoin because its profitable on my part, regardless if others mostly see it as a negative scam. We can't change those people, but we can always change how we react to them.

Trump is a disaster for Bitcoin's image, but it's not as easy as writing him off as a pump-and-dump scammer since:

1. He's President of the United States and millions of US voters are convinced he's 100% honest and it's everybody else in the world who are lying.

2. He owns, himself, over a half of a billion dollars in Bitcoin.

3. He owns, himself, the company named, "American Bitcoin", which is one of the most prominent "Bitcoin" companies in the world.

So yeah, it's pretty darn hard to separate Trump and Bitcoin.

But hey, look at the bright side, Bitcoin doubled in price after Trump got elected*.


(* Gains have all been given back).

Nope, that's not way off. In fact, that's the same as what I've experienced too. And I think for those negative perception with what I've seen is more likely about the misuse of bitcoin. Not really a misuse but with how scammers use bitcoin and the victims are blaming or putting their anger to bitcoin itself. That is the reason why we see skeptical people about it for being targeted and a victim of a scam that used bitcoin as a tool for them so that the scammers won't be tracked. But despite that these scammers are still there, the positive side is gaining more people understanding it because bitcoin is a real money and that's why activities like that are also happening which is the same in real life.

It’s not surprising to me if I find any tech skilled people are also upset about Bitcoin. Technical knowledge doesn’t guarantee that they understand monetary history, Austrian economics or incentive structures. A good programmer can easily say bitcoin is inefficient, but they may not be asking why a trustless monetary network is needed.

The same goes for media perception. For years, Bitcoin has been discussed from the angle of price, scam, money laundering or criminals. As a result, Bitcoin has become speculation for most people. Although institutional interest and mainstream coverage have increased in recent years but you can’t erase the negative and polarized narrative from everyone’s mind.

But I think that we, who are supporters of Bitcoin, should accept criticism ourselves. If we just dismiss critics as stupid, adoption will not increase. We need to improve our education.

​A few things come to mind about why people still don't understand the idea behind digital cryptography.

​A while ago, I came across a forum post where a user tried to convince everyone that Bitcoin is just meaningless numbers in a wallet. It made me realize that even though people are adopting cryptocurrency, many still can't make sense of how it actually works.

​In my opinion, people are willing to trust almost anything except a system that isn't controlled by the government. They fear that one day they will wake up looking foolish, and I think they are secretly waiting for the whole system to collapse.

​Recent security hacks probably gave them a sense of satisfaction. It isn't that they lack knowledge, they simply lack faith in a decentralized system.