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Wed Mar 19 21:16:40 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel - fair enough, but I was just addressing "ninjashogun, no one buys bitcoin to buy things" - though to be fair ThickAsThieves probably meant to say that as a generalization, which is true.
Wed Mar 19 21:15:40 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> ThickAsThieves, I mean I get what you're saying about investors/speculators - but it has actual users of it as currency as well.
Wed Mar 19 21:15:16 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> ThickAsThieves, that's not true. Some people uses bitcoin to buy some things. if that weren't true, Tiger Direct wouldn't accept htem.
Wed Mar 19 21:14:45 UTC 2014 <ThickAsThieves> ninjashogun, no one buys bitcoin to buy things
Wed Mar 19 21:14:44 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel, now you've lost me :)
Wed Mar 19 21:14:33 UTC 2014 <deadweasel> ninjashogun: this is not jesus
Wed Mar 19 21:14:25 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel ...
Wed Mar 19 21:14:06 UTC 2014 <deadweasel> ninjashogun: I don't
Wed Mar 19 21:13:58 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel - okay. So what happens when YOU explain bitcoin to a newbie?
Wed Mar 19 21:13:40 UTC 2014 <deadweasel> ninjashogun: the mental hurdles people put up for themselves are far higher than the small mental hurdles you have bounded to understand it.
Wed Mar 19 21:13:23 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> Normal users, for reasons we can appreciate, would then proceed to buy bitcoins if they had something they wanted to buy in bitcoins. (And only then.) This is currency working as it should.
Wed Mar 19 21:12:31 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> That would be the normal answer to the question you just stated....
Wed Mar 19 21:11:51 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel - what's wrong with the answer to your question "explain a bitcoin to a a newbie and then convince them to buy some" - bitcoin is just a currency like euros or pounds, except you don't need to involve banks, it works more like cash. If you want to buy something in pounds (let's say you visit London) you get some pounds at an exchange (using dollars). if you want to buy something using bitcoins, you get some bi
Wed Mar 19 21:11:51 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> tcoins (using dollars).
Wed Mar 19 21:10:06 UTC 2014 <deadweasel> ninjashogun, i seem to have lost you completely. but i know one thing, the last time I thought I had some insight on bitcoin I asked everyone here. turns out i was wrong.
Wed Mar 19 21:10:04 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> so as soon as people starting talking about "Buying things with bitcoin" then it's pretty obvious how it works.
Wed Mar 19 21:09:38 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel, so if you were to say, "I bought $100 with my bicycle" it would - as you point out - sound like incoherent ramblings. It should be written, "I SOLD my bike for $100".
Wed Mar 19 21:09:05 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel, sorry I wasn't clear enough. The difficulty with 'buying' a currency is that people don't think of 'buying' a dollar, or euro, or pound. It's a difficult concept for most people. People think of using currency, not buying it.
Wed Mar 19 21:08:23 UTC 2014 <deadweasel> honestly, i can't follow your ramblings at present, ninjashogun, how could you possibly explain it to a newbie?
Wed Mar 19 21:08:01 UTC 2014 <ninjashogun> deadweasel, it doesn't make much sense to say "I bought $100 with my used bike." It feels wrong. But it's accurate.