it takes time for people to realize the potential, i remember talking about bitcoin and the reaction was one of disbelief that they were traded publicly and had value and that was only a few years ago and some of those same people still have reservations. funny thing though i have noticed that all of them have problems managing their phones so now i'm thinking lack of knowledge of digital products like computers,phones, and tablets. Modern technology they have because they have money but what it does or how to use it is at a minimum or get by at a need to know level.
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i didnt believe it either, i sometimes wondered what i missed out on by not gpu-mining all those years ago ... by the time i did i could barely scrape one BTC together before the card burnt out (which would still be nice if gox didnt take it) but thinking about that is wasted time ofcourse
i think the underlying problem with tek today is it used to be the domain of the wizard ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/ )
solder your stuff together and all that, then it became more manageable ... the "personal" computer, the legends like c64 (but those still werent very diy) then the pc got its own diy scene which seriously helped to understand what goes whree and what does what but a phone or a tablet
or even a laptop , theres no need to understand anything, and if it breaks you're not gonna open it and check part by part which one it could be you just throw it away, right?
i think i'll stay oldskool like that, cheap smartphones and my pcs as expensive as i can afford ... not really, the main pc would be but i prefer too much of a minimal system to see how far it runs (which means no windows on any but the main pcs ofcourse)
nobody needs to know and "the industry" likes that ... tek savvy consumers arent really good if you want to sell them the next model yearly, they might start tinkering hahah
i think the more success stories about bitcoin reach main media the more it will attract
simply "cuz MONEY !!!"
i got my c64 cos the old man bought one cos his friend had one and then he didnt know what to do with it, his old vmo-buddy tried to train me or something i dont know, always came over every week with a load of photocopied book and a shoebox full of 5inch floppies lol i had a few thousand and then this thing called "power cartridge" that let you literally freeze the computer at right where it was and took you to the code (assembler it was processing at that very moment) probably helped a little too in my understanding of the von neumann architecture (i hear vn machines are something else)
but it was considered useless, i was like nine years old , here in hickville, there WAS no IT in schools so when i didnt do my homework they took away the computer
like .... DUH! (now being 2018 and all that) its hard to blame them, parents and all, but it didnt help in my liking this place hahah (it runs deep)
look at it this way, the less they know the more business is available (if you live in a place where you can actually run business BEFORE you have a million cash to spare :)
im gonna leave the replies for tomorrow i spent quite some time on my post today, fixing up my steemterm scripts to illustrate, i think there's a botnet brewing, or else someone is pointing out the dangers
see you around (tomorrow probably lol)