Christmas - that time of the year when we all gather around the table, eat, look at our phones and try not yell at each other too much. Marvelous!
Also the time we talk about our work, achievements or less of and other 'personal' stuff. Of course, you will talk about crypto and Steemit. I mean, I WILL, because honestly, I've lost my ability to talk about anything else currently. I am fun at parties, yes!!
Explaining is interesting because it can make you realize that you do not understand yourself something as good as you though you would. But Bitcoin is crazy difficult to explain to anyone not to mention someone who doesn't use a smartphone. "decentralization" means almost nothing for people in ex-communist countries, old people, young people and people in general...hmm. OK!
So you start with the basics: there's a ledger that everyone has so you can't cheat and everything is fair and transparent! Then you add money to it. BOOM! Easy enough, right?
The problem is that imagining a huge ledger is very difficult and what exactly are these miners anyway? It all sounds made up and weird.
Even if you get what it does, why ON EARTH is it so expensive?
[ and do you have any? maybe 2? cause you see.....]
The discussion gets weird fast and you start to add metaphors or comparations and twists. By the time you are too tired to talk anymore you are not sure if you're talking about bitcoin or something else entirely. And anyway, who can tell?! Everyone is drunk anyway
In the end, my father was unconvinced: Just give me real money!
ME: You mean fiat?
Him: ....
Me: ...:(...?...ok...
My mother is half sure I'm now a drug dealer?!
My sister still think I need a job.
We all love eachother!
I feel that I am not alone in this though. Even fucking Bill Gates has this problem!
Anyway, I hope you all had a nice holiday and you tried to WOKE! your family to the future. Which is, of course: STEEMIT!!
PS: The photo of the apple is actually form this article that is great:
https://medium.freecodecamp.org/explain-bitcoin-like-im-five-73b4257ac833