How to fight anti-crypto psychosis?

i mentioned monero as a possible payment method for a band that needed to re-ship a damaged product. Ended up paying nothing. I offered like 4 different options inlcuding a casual monero mention with no explanation. They only accepted paypal which i could not pay without an actual account. 2026 and we cant agree to send money over the god damn fucking internet is pathetic. Hopefully some google searches were made.
When people say bitcoin has failed. This is the example. The biggest crypto and it wasnt made available as an option for last resort.

@phlegmscore
one thing I'll suggest is that you can usually pay without an account if the receiver makes a goods and service invoice- they usually allow for guest payments which let you pay via card or venmo without a PayPal account.

but yeah there are lots of things I'd like to buy off people but everyone wants to use all these apps I don't use.

Crypto in general is hard to understand. Most people don't even understand how crypto wallet works let alone sending the money to an address. Me personally, it took me days to grasp the overall concept and how it really works. But the main driver of the slow adoption is the lack of marketing of the crypto in my opinion.

In the Monero community for example, it is pretty rare to find people making videos about purchasing everyday item with xmr. The service that accept the crypto exist, but people still not familiar with the concept so they never learn or intrigued.

But there's the news which i don't know if i need to feel happy or sad, that is the news that America will offload its debt to the global economy. How would America do this? by using USDT. If this plan proceeding as they plan, there is no more anti-crypto people like it used to be. Everyone will be familiar with it and lets pray they understand their predicament by holding on usd in the form of crypto.

The pushing of CBDC will force people to seek better alternative, free from their government sensorship, free to spend their money. Like Monero for example.

@sepia >The pushing of CBDC will force people to seek better alternative, free from their government sensorship, free to spend their money. Like Monero for example.
Honestly, I don't see why people wouldn't use cbdc's/stablecoins. Especially if the government uses this as a distribution method for welfare.

I don't see why people wouldn't use cbdc's/stablecoins.

literally my thought too when read comment above
people that been saying "oh that vax thing is kinda sus", then 2 weeks later saying they did the jab thing, wearing the mask and all that
like... people dont have spine and will comply, that's just the reality of things and we seen that happening at a very big scale..

and hoping that people will change when that cbdc thing will be live, like, nah, that will be too late already
gotta keep building, keeping the outreach going and hope to win that battle vs cbdc
but right now, monero is not there yet, the ecosystem is not there yet
and the cryptospace as a whole lost the plot so.. not an easy task...

kinda feels like we're on borrowed time u know?
that it's not because of lack of funding that contributions should be halted

@rottenwheel
do u remember that time they tried to have the newsletters to be against eachothers then u completely flipped the script on dem dipshits that are in their glass towers eating american mcdonald watching the newsletters fight for their lives, just for their enjoyments?
it's not about them, or us
it's about that borrowed time, and it's bigger than just monero

If they are curious people, they wouldn't decline you sending them a very small amount of XMR. That can show them how it works for effectively free, minus your time. Problem is, they don't really get the real experience of spending or checkout that you get with more Monero.

This post turned into a very random rant with no real structure, be warned. Please respond to my points if you want, but follow proper logic.

There are challenges in each step of getting into Monero.

Before they try it

• They think Crypto is a scam
• They don't see a problem with their currency for transactions
• They think it's too volatile (this is kind of fair)

Even for curious people that would be willing to try it, it's not so easy.

• Not sold on the CEX they use
• They think that doing KYC compromises Monero
• They don't know that you can just buy any crypto on a CEX then swap it on Trocador for Monero
• They are scared of losing money or messing up wallet setup

Once they have it.

• Their wallet doesn't sync fast enough since they don't open it often or it doesn't sync at all
• They don't know where to spend it. There are a lot of places that accept Monero, but you don't really happen upon them.
• Idk there's prolly other problems. This is the easiest stage honestly.

I used to think this way about all crypto. I wrote it off before I even tried it. Many people just write off the entire thing because of all those news articles about NFT scams, cex scams, meme coins, etc.

Before I got into Monero, I thought that it's really stupid that Bitcoin is worth so much. I thought, "It doesn't really exist, it's just made up money". What I didn't realize was that, all currency is made up. That's literally the point. Its value is determined by supply and demand. A good currency should be created fairly and have controlled inflation. It should be private, fungible, decentralized, etc. All stuff that makes Monero the best currency.

I do hope Monero becomes less volatile over time as usage increases. Price goods in Monero and don't change the price?

Lot's of Monero maxis, when confronted with the problem that Monero is really volatile, will say something like

• It's basically a stablecoin
• USD is down 90% in XX years
• USD loses so much to inflation every year
• That's just the US value
• That's what happens with true decentralization

The problem with the argument that USD loses value to inflation every year, so therefore it's a worse currency. We know that USD will lose value every year, that's why you shouldn't keep much of it in USD, you are supposed to invest it (growing the economy), or loan it out (allow other to grow the economy). The difference is predictability.

It doesn't matter if a currency loses value every year, the important thing to people is that it consistently loses value.

@beer People tend to believe a lie rather than deal with the consequences. I think we're better off focusing on those who are open to it and strengthening the Monero community.

I'm actually working on a protocol that will allow people to have their own monetary standard with any crypto (preferably monero of course) and build parallel societies, not only digitally, but in our physical world as well.

Maybe you're interested in reading it, I wrote an article about it on nostr:

https://primal.net/e/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp85dy5276kt5gzu07zdnka3dmvpzzx4nws8qwxtufvt622vytsnpqq58qctjv9kxcetv94ek7cmfv46xjetn94ek7mmw946x7ttzv5kkzttjv4skc6t50ykslmluaj

nostr ID: nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzp85dy5276kt5gzu07zdnka3dmvpzzx4nws8qwxtufvt622vytsnpqy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3xamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvhsq2rsv9exzmrvv4kz6um0vd5k2arfv4ej6um0dahz6ar0943x2ttp94ex2ctvd968jtg2gxhkv

@beer People often prefer to believe a lie than to deal with the consequences.

@xenu You got a point, I haven't thought about that part.

This thread is inspiring yet another Monerica side project.

There is a huge education gap and instead of lamenting the average person's ignorance, it's better to try to onboard them in a more structured way.

Monero is not really that easy to get into. Furthermore, there are many reasons why someone would care about Monero in the first place: investing, trading, wealth preservation, avoiding surveillance, fleeing a country, hiding assets from a spouse/ abusive relationship, idealism in terms of freedom, entrepreneurship, being a tech person, being an actual cryptographer, chain hopping/swapping to have access to other crypto without a clear trace, wanting to receive anonymous donations, the list goes on.

The average person is too busy with their day-to-day life to even tell you how or why the US dollar has value and they probably do not care either. But more people will become curious about alternatives as the change is coming. New Fed chair, increased controls, and so on.