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Do they think Steem and making money online is a scam?

Not really. Some think cryptocurrencies are a ponzi scheme and I have to inform them how they actually work and have value to correct the misconception, but generally the response is something along the lines of "Oh I already have too many social media accounts as it is what with facebook, twitter, google+, youtube, whatsapp, kik, etc that I don't feel like going with another one."

It is good that we can be on main stream social networks and point them here. Basically, cryptocurrencies run through blockchain systems, generally, specifically through the art and science of cryptography which is like a preset (preprogrammed.... through transparencies.... set rules stuck on some integrity) system or program..... maybe like an accounting program.... and also like a banking system.... and cryptocurrencies are also like assets.... as seen on stock markets.... in other words, the cryptocurrency structure (design) is like a hybrid of five or so different things all combined into one.... and the decentralized bit torrent like nature of it is another key component to the root of these blockchain systems...... and it takes people time to digest all of these elements to really get what the HELL Bitcoin and Steem and other cryptocurrencies and blockchain networks are all about.... but it is good that we can slowly introduce people to the future.... for the sake of our children...... for humanity..... for destiny.... for everything..........

I introduce it more simply by comparing it against a normal bank system. Bank holds fiat money that only has value because someone says it does, and miners accrue money by processing bank transactions with their GPU's no different than paying via a debit card. It's not entirely accurate, but close enough that it makes them go "Ohhh I get it."

Yes, before, Rothschild, the FRS, world banks, the NWO, Rockefeller, had more control over the value of fiat, especially the dollar since the 1700's maybe in some as or maybe longer.

In other words, money became more of a monopoly..... long ago different local banks made their own money bills.... like checks.... backed maybe by gold more often than now.

And cryptocurrency is built instead on capitalism as opposed to centralized monopolism, technocracy, plutocracy, corporatism.