My grandma forced me to sell my Bitcoin because Forbes CEO told her it was a scam

When you are arguing with community members about the legitimacy of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash, and when you are gloating about Bitcoin breaking through $10,000, have you ever thought about how people outside this limited community of die-hard fans view Bitcoin?

Bitcoin is a fraud, don't be fooled!

Recently, a netizen on Reddit was troubled by this. He said that he was a college student and had always held some Bitcoins for investment. During the Thanksgiving dinner not long ago, his parents mentioned his identity as a "hodler" to his grandmother. After knowing this, his grandmother forced him to sell his Bitcoins.

The reason behind this is also quite strange. A few months ago, this grandmother met Forbes CEO Steve Forbes on a plane. He told her that Bitcoin is a scam, and then there was this farce at Thanksgiving dinner.

The netizen felt very speechless. After all, the grandmother had no idea what Bitcoin was before and had never done any research. She just believed it based on what a so-called big shot said... So he posted a question, what is the general reaction of the elderly when they hear about Bitcoin?

After seeing this post, many netizens started to complain about their family members’ performance as if they had found an organization.

Someone said his uncle was the same. His uncle insisted that Bitcoin was a scam because the store where his uncle worked terminated the contract with the partner that produced Bitcoin ATM machines. After hearing this, he told his uncle that he bought some Bitcoin and it has almost doubled now. His uncle said nothing and rolled his eyes at him.

There is also a person who tried to educate his family about Bitcoin but was told to shut up… This poor netizen never mentioned Bitcoin to his family again. However, due to the recent surge in the price of Bitcoin, his family has been pestering him to buy Bitcoin every day.

What’s even scarier is that a netizen wanted to set up a cryptocurrency club, so he went to a senior computer science professor at the school as a consultant. He told the professor about Bitcoin and blockchain, but the professor refused his invitation because he was afraid that the increasing value of Bitcoin might eventually make his retirement fund worthless (excuse me???).

So it seems that because we are older, regardless of whether we have received higher education or not, we are unable to accept new technologies?

Actually, it is not. Many netizens said that their parents had asked them to help buy Bitcoin to prepare for retirement. There was also a 92-year-old grandmother who has been buying Bitcoin after listening to her grandson's introduction.

Informal survey

Seeing some extreme or tolerant examples around foreign netizens, I couldn't help myself. I risked being blocked by my WeChat friends and picked a few friendly friends to talk to.

After a few friendly chats, I found that my WeChat friends have heard of Bitcoin, but have not learned much about this cryptocurrency. They know about Bitcoin because of its skyrocketing price this year, the overwhelming media coverage and the friends around them who have joined the ranks of Bitcoin speculation, which has forced them to be exposed to news about Bitcoin.

Although not many people actively seek to learn about Bitcoin, I was surprised that in this small survey, no one said that Bitcoin was a scam, and no one threatened to rescue me from pyramid schemes...

What was even more surprising was that I found two friends who had different understandings of Bitcoin (I had never talked to them about Bitcoin before). One of them told me that the advantage of Bitcoin lies in privacy, and the disadvantage also lies in privacy (very profound). As for whether he would buy Bitcoin, he thought it depended on what this currency meant to him. He said that Bitcoin was like a luxury to him, not a necessity.

Another friend of mine told me excitedly that she is a big fan of Bitcoin. She thinks Bitcoin is very suitable for investment and she is willing to buy Bitcoin.

From this informal survey, we can see that most people outside the industry do not understand Bitcoin from its sophisticated underlying technology, but from its amazing price trend. This probably also reflects the current situation of the domestic cryptocurrency industry: no matter how good the technology is, any project that can increase tenfold or a hundredfold is a good project...

In addition, people's views on Bitcoin are not so extreme, and no one will say it is a scam. This survey also interviewed a university teacher who did not think Bitcoin was a scam.

It can be seen from this that while friends in the circle are busy contributing to the community, they should also help increase the popularity of Bitcoin, so that more people can recognize this decentralized cryptocurrency, recognize its advantages, and recognize its potential, thereby accelerating the pace of this technology to subvert the world.

Finally, I would like to thank my WeChat friends for not blocking me! Attached is the amazing reply left by a reddit user in the post at the beginning of this article.

1. She just wants to short sell and buy at a low price. Grandma, don’t try to fool me this time!
2. In 2000, Steve asked me to buy a Motorola, and I still hold a grudge against him!
3. Thank God, thank God, it wasn’t Jamie Dimon (CEO of JPMorgan Chase) sitting next to grandma.

What would your grandma do if you talked about Bitcoin in front of her?