People don't get it yet. Crypto is new. It's like when the cell phone came out and its gradual acceptance. People refused to get one. People thought pay phones were good enough. People thought they had plenty of emergency call boxes on the roads (and there was). My parents resisted getting a cell phone until 2002. I know people who resisted even longer. Really, most of us don't even need one.
For me personally it all started when a friend on deployment lent my mother a cell phone. She wanted to try it. It was cool and trendy to carry one around. Father still resisted but hey, free is free. Finally my mother actually went to the store and bought one because all of her coworkers had it. Hey, it can be used for emergencies! And it's YOUR number! No one else shared your number. That's what made it worth $60 or whatever a month to her. That's what made it so great.
Now you don't need to carry around your phone numbers in some phone book or memorize them and then having your friend tell the operator your name just to talk to you at work. No more having to be AT your desk to make calls and programming your work phone with all of your personal numbers for everyone to see. You can make calls anywhere you want, in the kitchen, outside where there is fresh air, or even in your car. THIS was actually worth a lot to people, when in reality, the inconvenience was very very minor since access to a phone was damn near everywhere and if you didn't have one you probably would be just fine even in an emergency.
Slowly but surely adoption spread. Even the oldest people got them. It had a built in phone book so they don't need to memorize the phone numbers. It was convenience and privacy that sold the first cell phones. It was individuality that made it trendy.
You nocoiners are no different than the naysayers of the past. You have no vision. You have no imagination. You are the "Why do I need a cell phone when land lines are everywhere?" people. You are the "Why do I need broadband internet just to read a bunch of funny emails and jokes?" "Why do I need more than 64KB of memory?" or even "Why do we need steam power when slave labor is so cheap?" Fiat will die in our lifetime. Crypto is the future. It just takes time for people to accept it. Crypto also offers individuality. It also offers privacy, and convenience. The difference though, is that YOU can be a part of it. YOU can get rich out of it. YOU don't even need to do that much work or effort to be a part of it! There is 100 Trillion dollars of circulating money in the world, and even more value derived from stocks, dividends and assets. Property in the U.S. amounts to 100 trillion alone. Crypto only occupies $300 billion despite all the fake garbage out there and broken chains and functionality. It's not done yet. You are still early. YOU are NOT "too late". And the phenomenon will never, ever happen ever again.
Mason Brooks
the difference with crypto is that it is the first technology that frees people from a tyranny that has lasted 12000 years (currency debasement) the impact crypto will have is unprecedented in human history
The token economy will usurp traditional stocks slowly but surely and will be the real value of a company, not the shares that can only be traded after years of legal paperwork and official nods from the elites, offered on 1 exchange with fiat controlled by a PRIVATE federal reserve that has never been audited and does whatever the fuck it wants.
All these tokens will be traded against BTC and ETH, around the entire world, traded instantly, for just about anything. Some 5 year old pajeet with internet access in his village can trade and actually use tokens at very little cost. The kid can even get a job and get paid in tokens and easily cash it out for other cryptos to buy things. This will uplift humanity to new levels that old fiat currency cannot. Ready Player One is not the future. No, crypto coins are and there will be kids who will be able to interact with the rest of the world without having the confines of traditional regional banking and employment regulations.
Xavier Murphy
I mean obviously. I’ve always assumed the no coiner crypto fud posters are either just trolls shills or possibly people who bought btc in December got fucked and are now salty about it. It’s blindingly obvious to me that this whole field is the next tech innovation that normies will eventually accept as part of every day society.
Cell phones were invented in the 80s but didn’t become mainstream til the late 90s.
Within 5 years crypto will be mainstream. Probably less.
Michael Morales
Another part of this which no-coiners don't get is that this is not only about disrupting the traditional financial markets by replacing IPO's with ICO's or offering some new type of way to do payments. Its nice that you can now track a supply chain on the Blockchain or have a specific coin to buy X companies products with. But looking at something like MakerDAO you see bank lending systems being represented by a few hundred lines of code. You can literally become your own bank, lend yourself your own money and have nobody else accountable for your balance than yourself.
The tokens surrounding crypto systems are a handy addition, because they do allow you to invest without being accredited from wherever you are in the world. The real revolution will happen through decentralization of structures and giving everyone the ability to turn towards true financial individualism without banks.
Adam Gray
You guys are all really knowledgeable.
If you have anything else to share, please do.
Isaiah James
>Cellphone - greatly improving ease of communication with no comparable substitute; great improvement over landline phones and pagers
>Crypto - designed for online digital payments but too inconsistent in speed and value too volatile to used for payment or store of value and also not secure; zero incentive for people to switch over to crypto except for speculation
Charles Brown
Cell phones are actually useful
Isaiah Johnson
Listen, faggot. I'm aware that crypto is the future. I'm just having a hard time choosing between all of these shitcoins. What are objectively the best cryptos to hold? I was thinking XMR, BTC, BCH, and ETH.